Black Beauty

“It is good people who make good places.” Well-born and well-bred the handsome horse named Black Beauty spends his early days with his mother at an English farm. Treated with affection and kindness he is encouraged to be good always. “. . . I hope you will fall into good hands; but a horse never knows who may buy him or who may drive him; it is all a chance for us; but still I say do your best wherever it is and keep up your good name.”As Black Beauty grows up and changes hands will he be able to endure the cruel masters keeping in mind his mother’s lessons of goodness?Bringing to light the mistreatment of horses in England in the nineteenth-century Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty was a galloping success. One of the bestselling books of all time it has been adapted for films and theatre and has been an inspiration for several other works of literature..