Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 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. Black Beauty is Anna Sewell's first and only novel. The story is told in the "first person" (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a highbred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse
• Author credits: Anna Sewell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 49
• Listed recording duration: 6:14:54

Catalogue topics

• children
• horses
• animal
• animal welfare
• banned books

Opening tracks: first 24 of 49

1. Chapter 01 - My Early Home — 5:28
2. Chapter 02 - The Hunt — 6:48
3. Chapter 03 - My Breaking In — 8:44
4. Chapter 04 - Birtwick Park — 6:20
5. Chapter 05 - A Fair Start — 7:04
6. Chapter 06 - Liberty — 4:03
7. Chapter 07 - Ginger — 9:53
8. Chapter 08 - Ginger's Story Continued — 7:37
9. Chapter 09 - Merrylegs — 5:58
10. Chapter 10 - A Talk in the Orchard — 11:42
11. Chapter 11 - Plain Speaking — 6:24
12. Chapter 12 - A Stormy Day — 7:50
13. Chapter 13 - The Devil's Trade Mark — 4:56
14. Chapter 14 - James Howard — 5:00
15. Chapter 15 - The Old Hostler — 5:02
16. Chapter 16 - The Fire — 7:53
17. Chapter 17 - John Manly's Talk — 7:05
18. Chapter 18 - Going for the Doctor — 7:47
19. Chapter 19 - Only Ignorance — 4:55
20. Chapter 20 - Joe Green — 6:24
21. Chapter 21 - The Parting — 6:33
22. Chapter 22 - Earlshall — 8:42
23. Chapter 23 - A Strike for Liberty — 7:39
24. Chapter 24 - The Lady Anne, or a Runaway Horse — 13:51

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