Books with title Black Beauty - the autobiography of a horse

Excerpt from Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a HorseHE gave ME A steady rein, I gathered myself together and with one leap cleared both dyke and bank.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Anna Sewell 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic 1877 novel Black Beauty.Anna Sewell was born on 30 March 1820 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, into a devoutly Quaker family. Her father was Isaac Phillip Sewell (1793–1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1798–1884) was a successful author of children's books. She had one sibling, a younger brother named Philip and was largely educated at home.When she was twelve, the family moved to Stoke Newington where she attended school for the first time.Two years later, however, she slipped while walking home from school and severely injured her ankles. Her father took a job in Brighton in 1836, in the hope that the climate there would help to cure her. Despite this, and most likely because of mistreatment of her injury, for the rest of her life she could not stand without a crutch or walk for any length of time. For greater mobility, she frequently used horse-drawn carriages, which contributed to her love of horses and concern for the humane treatment of animals

Black Beauty is the only published novel by Anna Sewell. She composed it 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. She lived long enough to see her novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold untill today, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.

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Black Beauty is one of the most popular books of all time. It has sold 50 million copies, but in all these years it seems there has never before been a Large Print Edition. When Black Beauty was alive, many of the horses had to suffer because their owners wanted to make as much money as possible, so they over loaded them with big loads. They made these poor houses pull or carry so much weight they had to suffer terribly. Similarly, book publishers today want to make as much money as possible so they publish books in such small print that almost nobody can read it. An old man like me cannot read the small print in these books, so I had to publish my own book with 18-point type and here it is.

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