Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell, was published in 1877, only a year before the author´s death. Written from the animal´s point of view, it sells the story of a working horse in Victorian England. Black Beauty has to adapt to life with a series of different masters and grooms, some of them kindly but many of them cruel or thoughtless. He survives flood, fire and fever until he feels ready to die, but then he is taken to yet another horse sale.