5/30/2023 0 Comments Black beauty original book![]() ![]() ![]() It chronicles the ebb and flow of his fortunes, from an idyllic colt-hood to a happy, plush situation amongst benevolent rich folks, to the afflictions of hard labor and abuse. Sewell, whose bicentennial is on March 30 of this year, named her first and only novel Black Beauty, his grooms and companions the autobiography of a horse,‘Translated from the original equine by Anna Sewell’-and as the rather verbose title suggests, the story is narrated in first person, by Black Beauty himself. These are the sorts of stories we tell about people, and Black Beauty is the story of a horse. No wives are imprisoned in attics (thank goodness), and nobody wears a decades-old, moldering wedding dress to mourn the lover who jilted her at the altar. There are no youths entangled in agonized romantic longing, nor plucky orphans determined to distinguish themselves in a rapidly industrializing London, nor labyrinthine mysteries surrounding inherited wealth or parentage. ![]() Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty (1877) is not often a novel that comes to mind when we think about Victorian literature. ![]()
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