James Herriot, a vet turned best-selling author, penned twenty books during his lifetime, selling over sixty million copies. His gentle, humorous, heartwarming narratives of the life of a veterinarian...
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Readers of all ages have enjoyed the best-selling books of James Wight, written under the pseudonym James Herriot. Wight's memoirs chronicle over forty years of his life as a country vet in the upland...
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Critical Essay by Nelson Bryant
["All Creatures Great and Small"] shines with love of life. It is not surprising that James Herriot still ministers to his charges in the same location, f...
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Critical Essay by William R. Doerner
What the world needs now, and does every so often, is a warm, G-rated, down-home, unadrenalized prize of a book that sneaks onto the bestseller lists for no appare...
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Critical Essay by Phoebe Adams
[All Creatures Great and Small] is full of recalcitrant cows, sinister pigs, neurotic dogs, Yorkshire weather, and pleasantly demented colleagues. It continues to be one...
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Critical Essay by Edward Weeks
All Things Bright and Beautiful continues the story of [James Herriot's] youthful practice in an earthy profession: with growing confidence and strong arms he lea...
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Critical Essay by Eugene J. Linehan, S.j.
Was it not W. C. Fields who claimed that a man could not be all bad if he disliked animals and young children? Allow me a suggestion: even if the reader disli...
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Critical Essay by Paul Showers
James Herriot is at it again with that easy, ingratiating way of telling a story. Readers of his best-selling "All Creatures Great and Small" are undoubted...
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Critical Essay by Richard R. Lingeman
[All Things Wise and Wonderful] is the third of James Herriot's remembrances of the quiet rural joys of practicing veterinary medicine in Yorkshire. It is ...
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Critical Essay by Jane Manthorne
Each chapter [of All Things Wise and Wonderful] is a separate vignette which is filled with drama and emotion, particularly the case of a beautiful collie—�...
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Critical Essay by Joy K. Roy
James Herriot's account of his veterinary experience in Yorkshire … can give a higher boost to morale than alcohol, drugs, or a visit to the doctor. These bo...
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James Herriot is a world famous veterinarian that has written many popular books. These books take people into his vet practice and show them how he lived and saved many pets' lives. Some of these boo...
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James Herriot
