Black Beauty
Cover mockup.
Black Beauty
A horse tells his own life, from a good master’s meadow to the cab ranks of London, and shows what kindness and cruelty look like from the other end of the reins.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 3–7
- First published
- 1877
- This edition
- Complete text, in four parts.
- Pages
- 210
- Prompts
- 49, one at the close of each chapter
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every chapter of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Duchess tells her colt he is “well-bred and well-born,” while the cart-horse colts “have not learned manners.” Then she adds, “I think you have never seen me kick or bite.” Which does she trust to make him good, his birth or her example? Underline each reason she gives him.
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages210
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts49, one at the close of each chapter
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio