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 colt 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 tales of cruelty and kindness. Each 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, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. Anna Sewell (1820-1878) was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic 1877 novel Black Beauty. Anna was unable to stand without a crutch or to walk for any length of time because of an old injury. For greater mobility, she frequently used horse-drawn carriages, which contributed to her love of horses and concern for the humane treatment of animals.

The poem, which has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American", is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Prior to the poem, American ideas about St. Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors varied considerably. On Christmas Eve night, while his wife and children sleep, a man awakens to noises outside his house. Looking out the window, he sees St. Nicholas in an air-borne sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. After landing his sleigh on the roof, the saint enters the house through the chimney, carrying a sack of toys with him. The man watches Nicholas filling the children's Christmas stockings hanging by the fire, and laughs to himself. They share a conspiratorial moment before the saint bounds up the chimney again. As he flies away, Saint Nicholas wishes everyone a "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night." Clement Clarke Moore ( 1779 – 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Located on land donated by the "Bard of Chelsea" himself, the seminary still stands today on Ninth Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets, in an area known as Chelsea Square. Moore's connection with that institution continued for over twenty-five years. He is the author of the yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas".

DigiCat Publishing presents to you a collection of the greatest Christmas poems and tales of all time :_x000D_ Christmas Tales_x000D_ A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)_x000D_ The First Christmas of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe)_x000D_ The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf)_x000D_ Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison)_x000D_ A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain)_x000D_ A Kidnapped Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)_x000D_ The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)_x000D_ Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge)_x000D_ Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope)_x000D_ The Mistletoe Bough (Anthony Trollope)_x000D_ The Fir Tree (Hans Christian Andersen)_x000D_ The Little Match Girl (Hans Christian Andersen)_x000D_ The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Hans Christian Andersen)_x000D_ The Snow Queen (Hans Christian Andersen)_x000D_ A Little Book of Christmas (John Kendrick Bangs)_x000D_ Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells)_x000D_ Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)_x000D_ Little Girl's Christmas (Winnifred E. Lincoln)_x000D_ The Elves and the Shoemaker (Brothers Grimm)_x000D_ Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy)..._x000D_ The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky)_x000D_ A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore)_x000D_ Happy Hearts (June Isle)_x000D_ The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (Amanda M. Douglas)_x000D_ The Chimes (Charles Dickens)_x000D_ Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)...._x000D_ Poems & Carols_x000D_ Silent Night_x000D_ King Winter _x000D_ The Night After Christmas_x000D_ The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)_x000D_ Christmas Bells (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)_x000D_ Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson)_x000D_ The Twelve Days of Christmas_x000D_ Minstrels (William Wordsworth)_x000D_ Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson)_x000D_ Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling)_x000D_ The Magi (William Butler Yeats)_x000D_ The Mahogany Tree (William Makepeace Thackeray)_x000D_ Hymn On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity (John Milton)_x000D_ A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)_x000D_ The Oxen (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman ..._x000D_ _x000D_

One of the most popular animal stories of all time, Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was first published in 1877. Drawn from the original text and intended for even the youngest of horse lovers, Black Beauty's Early Days in the Meadow depicts the first few months of the horse's life as a foal frolicking in the meadow. Artist Jane Monroe Donovan renders the classic story in lush oil paintings that convey a pastoral world of green fields and shady trees, while tenderly capturing the special love between mare and foal. The perfect harmony of words and pictures proves once again that the simplest messages are often the strongest. Readers will relish the sweetness of life in the meadow and the companionship of family and friends.

This unique collection of "THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY CHEER: 180+ Novels, Tales & Poems in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) A Christmas Inspiration (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) The Twelve Days of Christmas Silent Night Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Granny's Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne) The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin) Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Birds' Christmas Carol (Kate Douglas Wiggin) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann)...

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was a Danish writer, best remembered for his fairy tales. Table of Contents: BY THE ALMSHOUSE WINDOW THE ANGEL ANNE LISBETH BEAUTY OF FORM AND BEAUTY OF MIND THE BEETLE WHO WENT ON HIS TRAVELS THE BELL-DEEP THE BIRD OF POPULAR SONG THE BISHOP OF BORGLUM AND HIS WARRIORS THE BOTTLE NECK THE BUCKWHEAT THE BUTTERFLY A CHEERFUL TEMPER THE CHILD IN THE GRAVE CHILDREN'S PRATTLE THE FARM-YARD COCK AND THE WEATHER-COCK THE DAISY THE DARNING-NEEDLE DELAYING IS NOT FORGETTING THE DROP OF WATER JACK THE DULLARD AN OLD STORY TOLD ANEW THE DUMB BOOK THE ELF OF THE ROSE THE GIRL WHO TROD ON THE LOAF THE GOBLIN AND THE HUCKSTER THE GOLDEN TREASURE GRANDMOTHER A GREAT GRIEF THE HAPPY FAMILY A LEAF FROM HEAVEN IB AND LITTLE CHRISTINA THE ICE MAIDEN I. LITTLE RUDY THE JEWISH MAIDEN THE LAST DREAM OF THE OLD OAK THE LAST PEARL LITTLE CLAUS AND BIG CLAUS THE LITTLE ELDER-TREE MOTHER LITTLE IDA'S FLOWERS THE LITTLE MATCH-SELLER THE LITTLE MERMAID LITTLE TINY OR THUMBELINA THE LOVELIEST ROSE IN THE WORLD THE MAIL-COACH PASSENGERS THE MARSH KING'S DAUGHTER THE METAL PIG THE MONEY-BOX WHAT THE MOON SAW INTRODUCTION THE NEIGHBOURING FAMILIES THE NIGHTINGALE THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT IT THE OLD BACHELOR'S NIGHTCAP THE OLD GRAVE-STONE THE OLD HOUSE WHAT THE OLD MAN DOES IS ALWAYS RIGHT THE OLD STREET LAMP OLE-LUK-OIE, THE DREAM-GOD OLE THE TOWER-KEEPER OUR AUNT THE GARDEN OF PARADISE THE PEA BLOSSOM THE PEN AND THE INKSTAND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE THE PHOENIX BIRD THE PORTUGUESE DUCK...

This unique and meticulously edited collection dedicated holiday includes: Christmas Stories_x000D_ A Christmas Inspiration_x000D_ The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road_x000D_ Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket_x000D_ The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner_x000D_ The Josephs' Christmas_x000D_ The Osbornes' Christmas_x000D_ Clorinda's Gifts_x000D_ Christmas at Red Butte_x000D_ A Christmas Mistake_x000D_ The Unforgotten One_x000D_ The Red Room_x000D_ New Year Stories_x000D_ Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner_x000D_ Bertie's New Year_x000D_ Ida's New Year Cake_x000D_ Anne Shirley Series_x000D_ Anne of Green Gables_x000D_ Anne of Avonlea_x000D_ Anne of the Island_x000D_ Anne's House of Dreams_x000D_ Rainbow Valley_x000D_ Rilla of Ingleside_x000D_ Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was a Danish writer, best remembered for his fairy tales. Table of Contents: BY THE ALMSHOUSE WINDOW THE ANGEL ANNE LISBETH BEAUTY OF FORM AND BEAUTY OF MIND THE BEETLE WHO WENT ON HIS TRAVELS THE BELL-DEEP THE BIRD OF POPULAR SONG THE BISHOP OF BORGLUM AND HIS WARRIORS THE BOTTLE NECK THE BUCKWHEAT THE BUTTERFLY A CHEERFUL TEMPER THE CHILD IN THE GRAVE CHILDREN'S PRATTLE THE FARM-YARD COCK AND THE WEATHER-COCK THE DAISY THE DARNING-NEEDLE DELAYING IS NOT FORGETTING THE DROP OF WATER JACK THE DULLARD AN OLD STORY TOLD ANEW THE DUMB BOOK THE ELF OF THE ROSE THE GIRL WHO TROD ON THE LOAF THE GOBLIN AND THE HUCKSTER THE GOLDEN TREASURE GRANDMOTHER A GREAT GRIEF THE HAPPY FAMILY A LEAF FROM HEAVEN IB AND LITTLE CHRISTINA THE ICE MAIDEN I.