Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, is Anna Sewell\'s only novel. The story is told in the first person (or \"first horse\") as an autobiographical memoir told by a horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt 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,