Classic Starts®: Black Beauty

by Sewell, Anna; Church, Lisa; Corvino, Lucy; Pober, Arthur

• ISBN13: 9781402711442
• ISBN10: 1402711441
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Sterling

Summary

Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series:Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete.Classic Startstreats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at an incomparable price. Black Beautyis the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows Beauty's life and changing fortunes as he moves from owner to owner. As the horse encounters new experiences and new friends who reveal their own histories, the story quietly paints a fascinating portrait of how animals were treated during that era.

Table of Contents

PART I
CHAPTER 1 My Early Years	1	(6)
CHAPTER 2 A Fair Start	7	(7)
CHAPTER 3 Ginger and Merrylegs	14	(6)
CHAPTER 4 Horse Sense	20	(8)
CHAPTER 5 A Little Devil	28	(4)
CHAPTER 6 The Fire	32	(6)
CHAPTER 7 Going for the Doctor	38	(8)
CHAPTER 8 The Parting	46	(6)
PART II
CHAPTER 9 Learning New Ways	52	(8)
CHAPTER 10 Reuben Smith	60	(7)
CHAPTER 11 Job Horses	67	(6)
CHAPTER 12 A Thief	73	(7)
PART III
CHAPTER 13 At the Horse Fair	80	(6)
CHAPTER 14 An Old War Horse	86	(7)
CHAPTER 15 Jerry Barker and a London Cab Horse	93	(8)
CHAPTER 16 Poor Ginger	101	(3)
CHAPTER 17 Old Captain and His Successor	104	(7)
CHAPTER 18 Jerry's New Year	111	(10)
PART IV
CHAPTER 19 Jakes and the Lady	121	(6)
CHAPTER 20 Farmer Thoroughgood and His Grandson	127	(12)
CHAPTER 21 My Last Home	139	(7)
Questions, Questions, Questions	146	(4)
Afterword	150	(4)
Title List	154