Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Mass Market Paperback
(Dalmation Press, Sept. 3, 2012)
Black Beauty, first published in 1877, is a realistic animal story that focuses on the animal itself, not on a child’s interaction with an animal like so many other animal tales. Also unique is the presentation of the story using a horse as the first-person narrator; in other words, as if the horse wrote the story.