Anna Sewell's 'Black Beauty' has sold over 5 million copies and is still popular today, with at least a dozen movie versions available. It leaves no doubt in anyone's mind that horses can experience love just as well as humans- which makes this story a great love story. Coming next to 1001 Greatest Love Stories- Swiss Family Robinson- described as "Exciting, Endearing, and Beautiful", its a story of a family escaping from Napoleon by sea when their ship runs aground on a deserted island and they find they must pull togethe3r as a family to survive.

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