Black Beauty

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Black Beauty is a novel in 1877 by the English writer Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of his life, where he remained in his home as invalid. The novel became a best-seller instantly, with Sewell died just five months after publication, but after living long enough to see his only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time.

While frankly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 in the BBC The Big Read survey. It was seen as the pioneer of horse books.

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".... there is no religion without love, and people can speak as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to humans and animals, it's all false..."

Anna Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, England, and has a brother named Philip, who is an engineer in Europe. At the age of 14, Anna fell as she walked home from school in the rain and injured both ankles. Through the persecution of the injury, he becomes unable to walk or stand for a long time for the rest of his life. Flawed and unable to walk, he begins to learn about horses, spends a lot of time driving his father to and from the station where he goes to work. His dependence on horse-drawn transportation fostered his respect for horses. Sewell's introduction to writing began in his youth as he helped edit the works of his mother Mary Wright Sewell (1797-1884), a very religious and popular teen author.

Anna Sewell never married or had children. During a visit to a European spa, he met many writers, artists, and philanthropists. The only book is Black Beauty , written between 1871 and 1877 at his home in Old Catton. During this time, his health declined, and he could hardly get out of bed. Her much loved mother often had to help her in her illness. He sold the book to local publishers, Jarrold & amp; Children. The book broke the sales record and was "the sixth best seller in the English language." By telling the life story of a horse in the form of an autobiography and describing the world through the eyes of a horse, Anna Sewell broke new literary land.

Sewell died of hepatitis or tuberculosis on 25 April 1878, just five months after the novel was published, but he lived long enough to see his initial success. He was buried on April 30, 1878 in the Quaker graveyard in Lammas near Buxton, Norfolk, where the wall plaque marks his retreat. His birthplace in the Plain Church, Great Yarmouth, is now a museum.

Sewell does not write novels for children. He said that his goal in writing the novel was "to engender the kindness, sympathy and treatment of understanding of the horse" - an influence he gave to an animal essay he had read earlier by Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) entitled "Essays on Animals." His portrayal of sympathy about the suffering of working animals caused an intense outpouring of attention to animal welfare and was said to have contributed to the abolition of cruel practices using checkreins (or "in control", the ropes used to raise the horse's' high, fashionable head in Victorian England but painful and destructive horse neck). Black Beauty also mentions the use of a blindfold on horses, concluding that this use tends to cause accidents at night due to disruption with "full use" of the horse's ability to "see much better in the dark." than men can. "

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Plot summary

The story is told in the first person as a history of life narrated by a titular horse named Black Beauty - beginning with her free days like a young horse on an English farm with her mother, for her difficult life attracting a taxi in London, for her happy one. retire in this country. Along the way, he meets many difficulties and tells a lot of stories of cruelty and goodness. Each short chapter tells an incident in the life of Black Beauty that contains lessons or morals that are usually related to goodness, sympathy, and understanding of the treatment of horses, with detailed observations of Sewell and a broad description of the behavior of horses that lend these novels a lot of verisimilence.

This book describes the conditions among horse-drawn cab drivers in London, including financial difficulties caused by their high and low licensing fees, tariffs remain legally. A footnote in several editions says that as soon as the book is published, the difference between a 6 day taxicab license (not allowed to trade on Sunday) and a 7-day taxicab license (allowed for trading on Sundays) is abolished and taxicab licenses cost far reduced.

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Analysis

Sewell uses anthropomorphism at Black Beauty . This text supports the fairer treatment of horses in Victorian England. The story is told from the Black Beauty perspective and the reader's results can gain an understanding of how horses suffer through their use by humans with restrictive technical objects such as "control" and "blindfold" as well as procedures such as cutting the tail of a horse. For example, Ginger describes the physical effects of "controlling" against Black Beauty, stating, "... it's terrible... your neck hurts until you do not know how to hold it... my pain is my tongue and jaw and blood from my tongue covering the foam that keeps flying from my lips ". Tess Coslett highlights that the story of Black Beauty is structured in a way that makes it similar to the one she serves. The horses in the text have reactions as well as emotions and characteristics, such as love and loyalty, which are similar to humans. Coslett emphasizes that, while Black Beauty is not the first book written in animal autobiography, it is a novel that "allows readers to slide in and out of horses' consciousness, obscure humans/dividing animals".

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Reception

This book has been adapted into film and television several times, including:

• Your Compliance Servant (1917), directed by Edward H. Griffith
• Black Beauty (1921), directed by Edward H. Griffith
• Black Beauty (1946), directed by Max Nosseck
• Black Beauty (1971), directed by James Hill
• The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972-4), a TV series produced by London Weekend Television and aired by ITV
• Black Beauty (1978) by Hanna-Barbera
• Black Beauty (1978), mini-series TV
• Black Beauty (1987) by Burbank Films Australia
• Black Beauty (1994), a movie starring Docs Keepin Time
• In addition, in 1966 Walt Disney Productions produced an LP adaptation on the Disneyland Records label with music by Disney music director at the time, Tutti Camarata, complete with narration and singing by Robie Lester similar to an old radio program; Disney never made an animated or live-action version and nothing is known to have been planned by Disney.

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Theatrical adaptation

• Black Beauty Live (2011), adapted by James Stone and directed by Chris Ford

Black Beauty was adapted for the stage in 2011 by playwright James Stone. The play appeared at Broughton Hall Estate, North Yorkshire and Epsom Racecourse, Surrey. Production is a very important success and is done in the UK in 2012.

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Influence on other works

• Joe Indah is the best-selling novel of 1893 about a dog directly affected by Black Beauty and follows the same path to fame through awareness of animal cruelty.
• The Strike at Shane's: A Prize Story of Indiana is an anonymous American novel that won a monetary award and national publication in 1893 in a contest sponsored by the American Humane Society, and reprinted commercially several times afterwards. Described in the introduction as "The Sequel for Black Beauty ", it tells the story of the good and bad treatment of local farm animals and wildlife, especially the singers, in the Midwest America. This novel is generally regarded as the first work published by novelist Gene Stratton Porter, and contains a remarkable textual similarity with other books.
• One of the most popular bangs for children, Moorland Mousie (1929), by 'Golden Gorse' (Muriel Wace), is heavily influenced by Black Beauty .
• Phyllis Briggs wrote a sequel called Son of Black Beauty , published in 1950.
• The sisters of Pullein-Thompson write some stories about the Black Beauty family. They are "Black Ebony" (1975, by Josephine), "Black Velvet" (1975; by Christine), "Black Princess" (1975; by Diana), "Black Nightshade" (1978; by Josephine), "Black Romany" (1978; by Diana), "Blossom" (1978; by Christine), "Black Piper" (1982; by Diana), "Black Raven" (1982; by Josephine) and "Black Pioneer" (1982; by Christine). The book of Black Swift (1991) by Josephine is not about Black Beauty relatives. These are published in several compilations as well as some of them are available separately. Each compilation is then republished, sometimes with a name change.
• Spike Milligan wrote a parody of a novel titled Black Beauty According to Spike Milligan (1996).

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See also

• Sewell Park, Norwich

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References

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External links

• Black Beauty in the Internet Archive (book scanned in original color-drawing edition).

• Black Beauty in Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML)
• Black Beauty , Reader Penguin Factsheet.
• Read more about horse story history
• Black Beauty public domain audiobook on LibriVox

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