All Creatures Great and Small (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: James Herriot
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The late 1930’s
- Setting: North Yorkshire, England
- Principal Characters: James Herriot, Siegfried Farnon, Helen, Tristan Farnon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Memory, Love or romance, Nature, Science or scientists, Rural or country life, Doctors, Animals
- Locales: England
Form and Content
Fame came suddenly and unexpectedly to James Wight, who adopted the pseudonym James Herriot. It also came late; All Creatures Great and Small was published when he was in his mid-fifties. Wight had always wanted to write about experiences gleaned from his veterinary practice—to make an effort to fix, at least for himself, the character of his neighbors and the beauty of the land in which he had spent his professional life and which he had come to love intensely—but he never seemed to be able to get started. Finally, after his silver wedding...
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