All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot

If you have ever loved a friend, human or otherwise, this is the book for you. Absolutely super, a rarity, magnificently written, insightful, unforgettable.

Quotes about All creatures great and small It was a sound, workable system but it had one big snag. Then he went through to the dispensary, filled up the bottle and labelled it. If Siegfried rushed in on him he grabbed the bottle and started to shake it madly, inspecting the contents at intervals. He would get out his daily Mirror, light a Woodine and settle down til sleep overcame him. Was he supposed to be seeing practice, having a holiday, working or What? But it soon became clear that he was a factotum.

At first I wondered where Tristan fitted into the set up.

This literature-related article is a stub. By day, he tended to animals in and around the English village where he lived, and in the. It was a New York publisher who changed the childish-looking cover art and combined the works under the title “All Creatures Great and Small,” a phrase borrowed from the 19th century English hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful. 19, 2021 Beginning at the age of 50, the beloved veterinarian James Alfred Wight led a double life.

Alf Wight’s first two books of stories sold a few thousand copies each in the UK. Three James Herriot Classics Quotes Showing 1-30 of 39 If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. All Creatures Great and Small is a series of books, movies, and TV series based on books written by James Alfred Wight under the pen name James Herriot based on his experiences as a veterinary surgeon in the Yorkshire Dales, in the fictional town of Darrowby, based on a combination of Thirsk, Richmond, Leyburn and Middleham.

All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot