Black Beauty (Annotated)

Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is a pioneering animal autobiography that follows the life of a well-bred horse through comfort, hardship, neglect, and humane care in Victorian England. Narrated in the first person with lucid simplicity and moral urgency, the novel transforms the horse's experience into a critique of cruelty, class indifference, and urban commercial pressures. Its episodic structure, s...