Black Beauty (Dramatic Reading): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Black Beauty (Dramatic Reading), credited to Anna Sewell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Black Beauty (Dramatic Reading) by Anna Sewell. Read in English by Librivox volunteers. Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was "Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell." After its publication in 1877, Sewell lived just long enough to see her first and only novel become an immediate bestseller, as well as it encouraging the better treatment of many cruelly-treated animals. Although initially intended for people who work with horses, it soon became a children's classic. While outwardly teaching animal welfare, it also contains allegorical lessons about how to treat people with kindness, sympathy and respect. The story is narrated in the first person and each short chapter relates an incident in Black Beauty's life, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude. (Summary by Cori Samuel, Wikipedia, and Mary Kay) Black Beauty: Arielle Lipshaw Ginger: Beth Thomas Squire Gordon: Larry Wilson John Manly: Oxenhandler James Howard: Nolan Fout Jeremiah Barker: Todd Polly Barker: Kristin Gjerløw Other roles read by: Nick Bulka, Zames Curran, Nolan Fout, Freakwhency, Kristin Gjerløw, Ricky of Kokiri, Lydia, MaryAnn, Oxenhandler, Adele de Pignerolles, Rachel, Esther ben Simonides, K. Adrian Stroet, Joseph Tabler, Beth Thomas, Todd, Elizabeth Travers, Maggie Travers, Twinkle, Tomas Peter, and Larry Wilson Audio edited by Kim, Arielle Lipshaw, and Adele de Pignerolles

Recording facts

• Recording title: Black Beauty (Dramatic Reading)
• Author credits: Anna Sewell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 50
• Listed recording duration: 5:26:13

Catalogue topics

• children
• London
• memoir
• classic
• horses
• Moral
• talking animals
• kindness

Opening tracks: first 24 of 50

1. 00 - Dramatis Personae — 3:05
2. 01 - My Early Home — 4:24
3. 02 - The Hunt — 5:42
4. 03 - My Breaking In — 7:26
5. 04 - Birtwick Park — 5:02
6. 05 - A Fair Start — 6:45
7. 06 - Liberty — 3:08
8. 07 - Ginger — 8:01
9. 08 - Ginger's Story Continued — 6:37
10. 09 - Merrylegs — 4:47
11. 10 - A Talk in the Orchard — 11:07
12. 11 - Plain Speaking — 6:33
13. 12 - A Stormy Day — 6:04
14. 13 - The Devil's Trade Mark — 5:41
15. 14 - James Howard — 5:43
16. 15 - The Old Hostler — 5:51
17. 16 - The Fire — 7:05
18. 17 - John Manly's Talk — 7:16
19. 18 - Going for the Doctor — 7:00
20. 19 - Only Ignorance — 4:38
21. 20 - Joe Green — 4:58
22. 21 - The Parting — 5:17
23. 22 - Earlshall — 7:18
24. 23 - A Strike for Liberty — 5:48

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