Black Beauty (1877). Black Beauty is an engaging story told from the perspective of a horse. The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty, beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. “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.” Anna Sewell.
