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Anna Sewell
1) Black Beauty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Author
Language
English
Description
Black Beauty (1877) is the classic children's book by English author Anna Sewell. A cripple for most of her life, Sewell developed an early love of horses, and the story intended to teach her readers about treating horses (and allegorically all living things) with kindness, patience and sympathy. The story is narrated first-person by Black Beauty, recounting his journey from a farm to the hard life pulling cabs in London to his eventual
...3) Urbane
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Hazel LeSage and her lawyer friend Shanaya set out to find Hazel's ex-husband and renegotiate the terms of their divorce, in which Hazel unjustly lost her land. Exploring Hazel’s former home, they stumble into a deadly conspiracy entangling the rural lands surrounding their home city of Amiskwaciy. Meanwhile in Amiskwaciy, Hazel's pregnant firebrand daughter Missy struggles with all-day morning sickness and wild mood swings. Father-to-be Maengan...
6) Black Beauty
Pub. Date
1999, c1994
Language
English
Description
Faithfully based on Anne Sewell's classic novel, this beloved horse story is told by its hero, the gallant Beauty, whose joyous and heartbreaking life takes him from idyllic days on a country squire's estate to London's hard, cobblestoned streets, through decades of owners both kindly and harsh.
7) Black Beauty
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a horse as he is passed through the hands of many masters prior to returning to his original young master and a happy retirement.
9) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
10) Black Beauty
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When a girl is given the horse of her dreams, the pair form a bond of love and trust that last forever. Polly and Black Beauty share wondrous adventures and face hardships and danger with Polly's brother Bertie, Merry Legs the pony and the other residents of their lush country estate.