Black Beauty

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. '. . . we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. ' When his beloved owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty leaves his life as a young, care-free colt behind him and embarks on a working life of misery. Cruelly treated by his new masters, Anna Sewell rails against animal mistreatment in this poignant tale of a horse whose spirit can not be broken.