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Written by Anna Sewell - Audio book performed by Simon Vance - Unabridged Fiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 5 hours

Publisher, Tantor Media (January 2005)

"My master often drove me in double harness, with my mother because she was steady and could teach me how to go better than a strange horse. She told me the better I behaved the better I should be treated, and that it was wisest always to do my best to please my master. "But", said she, "there are a great many kinds of men, there are good, thoughtful men, like our master, that any horse may be proud to serve, and there are bad, cruel men, who never ought to have a horse or a dog to call their own."

Set in Victorian England, a well-born colt tells his own life story, from his early years in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage horse to an overworked cab horse. As he passes from one owner to another, some gentle, some cruel, Black Beauty tells a moving tale of an animal's perspective of the human world.