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Black Beauty is a well told, heart-wrenching story. No wonder it’s a classic. I think it was read to me as a child, so I knew I would shed tears. At times it’s almost too heart-wrenching to read. Yes, it’s very Victorian in its concerns (but not sententious) and utterly anthropomorphic in the telling, but it works as well as it did in 1877. If it was just a didactic piece condemning the bearing rein, it would probably have faded into oblivion. It is about our approach to the world in the face of economic pressure and the importance of calling out what is wrong when we see it. This is a great story that cleverly enfolds other stories (Ginger’s story and the Old Captain’s story) with profound consequences as to how animals (all creatures) are perceived by humans.

Somewhere I kept a newspaper clipping about how the men of the Australian Light Horse were ordered to shoot their horses after WW1 ended because the army could not afford to bring them back from the theatres of war in Europe and the Middle East. Most of the cavalry men found this harder and more tragic than anything they’d encountered in the fighting.
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Loyalty

473 / 8 - 'Ενα παιδικό βιβλίο που περιγράφει τις περιπέτειες ενός αλόγου μέσα από τις συμπεριφορές κάθε καινούργιου ιδιοκτήτη του. Υπάρχουν άλλοι που του συμπεριφέρονται καλά και άλλοι άσχημα .
Στο τέλος καταλήγει με τον αγαπημένο του Τζο Γκριν ( )