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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 foal on an English farm with his mother, 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 ...
Walter Farley (born Walter Lorimer Farley, 26 June 1915 – 16 October 1989) [1] was an American author, primarily of horse stories for children.His first and most famous work was The Black Stallion (1941), [2] the success of which led to many sequels over decades; the series has been continued since his death by his son Steven.
Arondel, Bevis's horse in the Middle English romance Bevis of Hampton; Arroch, Sindarin for 'noble horse', ridden into battle by Húrin in The Children of Húrin by J.R.R Tolkien; Artax, Atreyu's horse in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story; Asfaloth, Glorfindel's horse in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
Rugged Lark, famous quarter horse owned by Carol Harris, in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame; Sampson, the tallest horse ever recorded; a Shire; stood 21.25 hands (86.5 inches; 220 cm) high; Spanker was a 17th-century sire of many important horses. Thunder, Red Ryder's horse; Traveler, mascot of the University of Southern California
Enbarr, Manannán, Niamh, and Lugh's horse, which could travel both land and sea; Kelpie, a mythical Celtic water horse; Liath Macha and Dub Sainglend, or Macha's Grey, Cú Chulainn's chariot horse; known as the king of all horses; The Tangle-Coated Horse/Earthshaker, an Otherworld horse belonging to Fionn mac Cumhaill
Marguerite Henry (née Breithaupt; April 13, 1902 – November 26, 1997) [2] [3] [4] was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals. She won the Newbery Medal for King of the Wind, a 1948 book about horses, and she was a runner-up for two others. [5]
Scholarship points that the tale migrated to Europe and inspired similar medieval stories about a fabulous mechanical horse. [6] [7] These stories include Cleomades, [8] [9] Chaucer's The Squire's Tale, [10] [11] Valentine and Orson [12] and Meliacin ou le Cheval de Fust, by troubador Girart d'Amiens . [13] The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis ...
Jim Key at the 1904 World's Fair. Beautiful Jim Key was a famous performing horse around the turn of the twentieth century. [1] His promoters claimed that the horse could read and write, handle money, perform arithmetic for numbers below thirty, [2] and recite Bible passages "where the horse is mentioned."