Books with author A Sewell

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read.Retold for Learners of English by John Escott.When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse.But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell.

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell were a horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house because of her illness. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. Black Beauty became a forerunner to the pony book genre of children's literature. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. *This book contains a small biography of the author.*50 high resolution Illustrations from the Altemus edition 1897.

Black Beauty is a novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty--beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.The book describes conditions among London horse-drawn taxicab drivers, including the financial hardship caused to them by high licence fees and low, legally fixed fares. A page footnote in some editions says that soon after the book was published, the difference between 6-day taxicab licences (not allowed to trade on Sundays) and 7-day taxicab licences (allowed to trade on Sundays) was abolished and the taxicab licence fee was much reduced.

How IT ENDED ... ... 123 XXVII. EUINED, AND GOING DOWNHILL 127 XXV.LLL. A JOB HORSE, AND HIS DRIVERS 131 XXIX. COCKNEYS ... ... 186 XXX. A THIEF ... ... ... 144 XXXI. A HUMBUG ... ... 148 PAKT III. XXXH. THE HORSE FAIR ... ... 152 XXX d. A LONDON CAB HORSE ... 157 XXXTV. AN OLD WAR HORSE ... ... 162 XXXV. JERRY BARKER ... ... 169 XXXVI. THE SUNDAY CAB ... ... 177 XXXVH. THE GOLDEN RULE ... 183 XXXVIII. DOLLY AND A REAL GENTLEMAN 188 XXXIX. SEEDY SAM ... .. 193 XL. POOR GINGER ... ... 198 XLI. THE BUTCHER ... ... 201 XLH. THE ELECTION ... ... 205 XLIH. A FRIEND IN NEED ... 208 XTTV. OLD CAPTAIN, AND HIS SUCCESSOR 214 XLV. JERRYS NEW YEAR ... 220 PART IV. XLVI. JAKES AND THE LADY ... ... 228 XLV n. HARD TIMES ... ... 233 XLVHI. FARMER THOROUGHGOOD AND HIS GRANDSON WILLIE ... 239 XLIX. MY LAST HOME ...(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at