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Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

Black Beauty

Original publication
1877
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
324
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Children's Literature, Self-Help
Translated from
English

Book summary

Black Beauty, a horse of noble temperament, recounts his life from his peaceful beginnings to the hardships imposed by different owners. Through his experiences, he encounters both human kindness and cruelty. Each change of owner reveals a new facet of the world around him. His journey highlights animal suffering and human responsibility. The author offers an emotional, accessible narrative that directly reflects on respect, compassion, and dignity.

The plot

The horse tells the story. Black Beauty, a young black horse, grows up in a large meadow beside a pond of clear water. One day, his mother gives him a piece of advice he will never forget.

The world of the book

The age of horses. There are no cars yet. Horses pull carriages, farm carts and even the city buses. Black Beauty first lives on large country estates. Then he pulls a cab through the streets of London, amid the noise…

The author

Anna Sewell, a life with horses. As a child, staying with her grandparents in the country, she learned to ride and to drive a horse in harness. Later she drove a little pony carriage herself, taking her father to the…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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