Black Beauty

Black Beauty is the title of the only book by British author Anna Sewell. The novel was on November 24, 1877 published under the original title Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse ( Black Beauty - The Autobiography of a horse ).

Action

The novel is told from the perspective of the black stallion Black Beauty and describes its first fifteen years of life - grown from protected foals to riding and carriage horse in an animal loving and understanding family for several stations downstream. Black Beauty came in ignorant hands that torment him and his companion, the chestnut mare Ginger, with paper reins, he is taken by an inexperienced stable-boy by incorrect treatment in mortal danger and chased by a drunk at a rapid pace over a stony road, although a loose has horseshoes and must inevitably fall. The dangers posed by improper feeding and housing on dirty scattering are described. As Hackney and Hackney in London Black Beauty lost because of the placement in a dark barn almost his eyesight. Gradually, he comes down so that hardly hope is to have a happy ending. But to be sold as Black Beauty again, he attracts the attention of a little boy up, which can persuade his grandfather to buy the horse. Fortunately, he gets so into the hands of his former stable-boy, and the story ends with the soothing view that the animal now receives his charity and never intended to be sold again.

Background

Sewell criticized in her book not only the errors in the animal care and use of carriage horses, but also had the unfavorable circumstances of many people of their time in mind. Your goal is to draw readers to the cruel conditions under which many work horses had to spend their lives, they did not reach directly, but the novel was one of the famous youth books of the 20th century.

Films

Black Beauty was filmed several times. In 1921, two silent films were the same under the direction of David Smith and Edward H. Griffith. The first sound film about Black Beauty comes from the year 1933 and by Phil Rosen. 1946 turned Max Nosseck with the then still very young animal movie star beauty and with music by Dimitri Tiomkin perhaps the most successful film of Anna Sewell's template. In 1971, the movie version Black Beauty by James Hill with Uschi Glas and Walter Slezak, 1972, the British television series Black Beauty ( rotated among other things on the Stockers Farm in the London suburb of Rickmansworth ), 1990, the English continuation of the series under the name The New Adventures of Black Beauty and 1994, another film by Caroline Thompson.

Literature (excerpt)

• Anna Sewell: Black Beauty. Omnibus TB, 2007, ISBN 3-57021-871-6
• Anna Sewell: Black Beauty. Anaconda Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86647-614-1

• Anna Sewell: Black Beauty: tells the life story of a horse by himself, read by Barbara Stoll, publishing Eifel Crown Music & Book, 2007, ISBN 3-93764-057-6