Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is a children's novel first published in 1877, told as the autobiography of a horse. It follows the horse's experiences with various owners and gently encourages kindness and humane treatment; its warm first-person voice makes it worth listening to.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
BLACK BEAUTY The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell [English Quaker — 1820-1878.] [Note: 'Black Beauty' was originally published in 1877. This etext was transcribed from an American edition of 1911. Some small corrections were made, after being confirmed against other sources.] To my dear and honored Mother, whose life, no less than her pen, has been devoted to the welfare of others, this little book is affectionately dedicated.
Black Beauty
Part I
01 My Early Home
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
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