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Title: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot ISBN: 0-312-96578-8 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.81 (73 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: classic works!
Comment: James Herriot's books stand out in modern writing as absolute classics, evocative of an earlier, more innocent time, and more wonderously, by the skill with which these deceptively simple, entertaining, moving stories are written. Beneath the entertaining text and characters lies absolutely beautiful, artful writing, with craft and skill that ties all these chapters and stories together in a pattern of one country vet's life in England in the 1930's and 40's. These are so much more than animal stories. I am biased; these are my favorite all-time books, read and re-read since my youth. Increasing age has not diminished their charm. History will write James Herriot's name large. If you haven't read these books yet, you owe it to yourself to start with "All Creatures Great and Small". Whether or not you care for animals, you will fall in love with a gentler time, the escapades of a trio of young men, and the laugh-out-loud as well as very tearful events this author writes about so beautifully. Absolutely timeless and a classic.
Rating: 5
Summary: Stories that never fail to make you laugh and cheer up
Comment: These stories are true treasures. While the BBC series is amusing, these stories are far more personal. You get to met Dr. Herriot (a pseudonym for James Alfred Wight) who starts as a young veternarian just out of school and joins a country practice. Cows get the better of him, the local Yorkshire farmers one-up him, he gets his car inevitably stuck in the mud and yet prevails as a caring, resourceful vet who loves his quirkly rural clients as much the animals he cares for. He also writes with such laugh-outloud humor and self-deprecation you just wish the book would go on and on. Fortunately, he wrote four more of these books (each named for a line in a hymn) and a memoir of his father, in whose practice he began. They really give you the flavor of rural life in England before and after WWII.
I can't believe these stories are 30 years old, and Dr. Herriot has passed on. Thankfully he left this legacy behind for us to savor. These are books to re-read on dreary days with a cup of tea or just when you really need something to lift your spirits.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book
Comment: You have to be dead not to enjoy this book. I just wanted to register my five stars.
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Title: All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot ISBN: 0312966199 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot ISBN: 0312966555 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot ISBN: 0312966202 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Every Living Thing by James Herriot ISBN: 0312950586 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: James Herriot's Dog Stories : Warm And Wonderful Stories About The Animals Herriot Loves Best by James Herriot ISBN: 0312925581 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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