Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell's 1877 novel, told by the horse himself. Black Beauty passes through kind and cruel owners across Victorian England, seeing the whole world from the stable.
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The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by…Anna Sewell, Black BeautyStart reading Black Beauty free →
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Short chapters and plain, first-person English make this one of the easiest classics. A gentle A2 to B1 read.
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