Black Beauty: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 49 original MP3 tracks, 5:42:42 running time and a link to listen.
Black Beauty, 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 by Anna Sewell. Recording by Cori Samuel.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." It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. 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 adapted from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel, with help.
Recording facts
- Recording title: Black Beauty
- Author credits: Anna Sewell
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 49
- Listed recording duration: 5:42:42
Catalogue topics
- fiction
- fantasy
- horse
- horses
- animals
Opening tracks: first 24 of 49
- 01 - My Early Home — 5:04
- 02 - The Hunt — 6:34
- 03 - My Breaking In — 8:30
- 04 - Birtwick Park — 5:54
- 05 - A Fair Start — 7:06
- 06 - Liberty — 3:19
- 07 - Ginger — 8:40
- 08 - Ginger's Story Continued — 6:59
- 09 - Merrylegs — 5:16
- 10 - A Talk in the Orchard — 11:01
- 11 - Plain Speaking — 6:00
- 12 - A Stormy Day — 6:35
- 13 - The Devil's Trade Mark — 5:25
- 14 - James Howard — 5:30
- 15 - The Old Ostler — 5:40
- 16 - The Fire — 8:02
- 17 - John Manly's Talk — 7:01
- 18 - Going for the Doctor — 7:34
- 19 - Only Ignorance — 4:27
- 20 - Joe Green — 5:29
- 21 - The Parting — 5:27
- 22 - Earlshall — 7:26
- 23 - A Strike for Liberty — 6:27
- 24 - The Lady Anne, or a Runaway Horse — 11:50
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