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All Things Bright and Beautiful |  | Author: James Herriot
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 75356
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0312330863
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.089092
EAN: 9780312330866
ASIN: 0312330863
Publication Date: August 1, 2004
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"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell."
--Associated Press
The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series
Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world.
Now in a new edition for the first time in a decade, All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants---both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners.
"Humor, realism, sensitivity, earthiness; animals comic and tragic; and people droll, pathetic, courageous, eccentric---all of whom he views with the same gentle compassion and a lively sense of the sad, the ridiculous, and the admirable."
--Columbus Dispatch
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 Utterly Enjoyable Fictionalized Memoirs September 7, 2009
Shanna A. Gonzalez (Gaithersburg, MD)
All Things Bright and Beautiful continues the memoirs of James Herriot, newly married to Helen, as he continues his veterinary practice in Yorkshire. This book is simply more of the same witty, incisive commentary on animal ways and human nature, and how they came together in his unique professional life. Utterly enjoyable.
There is, however, one scene on p. 321, in which Herriot rather gratuitously describes a dance partner's physical attributes, which parents may wish to omit if reading aloud, or discuss if a young person is reading alone. This small blemish does not significantly alter the value of the story.
great stories September 5, 2009
Becci (Gainesville, Fl)
James Herriot tells the best stories..I have bought all of the CD's I wish there were more
maybe the best in a great series July 21, 2009
Donald T. Wardlow (charleston, sc usa)
I've read them all, and I think this is the best of the four. I've certainly re-read it the most. Herriot tells tales on all sorts of animals, and people--rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, merchant chief. He looks on them with a kindly eye, and you never forget the people or the animals. I have many favorites. One group is the 3 tales he tells of himself, a small man and rather a Boy Scout, trying to party with Granville Bennett, an overpowering party animal no man can keep up wit--but you get the feeling Herriot enjoyed trying, like many of us guys would. Maybe the best is the tale where he and his future wife cross that imaginary line between knowing one another and becoming a couple. TO a romantic sod like me, who remembers the night my wife and I joyously crossed that point of no return, that one is just a delight. Even stories i've read a dozen times and more can still have me laughing until I cry, or crying until I just have to start laughing again. More readable than Jean Shepherd, more intelligent than Dave Barry, this man was wonderfully funny, and his stories will live on for many decades, I hope.
 smelly book June 11, 2009
S. Brannan
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was very mildewy with brown edges to the book. I was going to send it back, but sprayed it with Melaleuca's Solumel and it took the smell and brown coloring away. I would not have been able to read it otherwise due to the smell!
For animal lovers September 27, 2008
Emily Taylor (Northern Utah)
Whether you love animals, England, or just great stories, James Herriot's memoirs of his career as a country vet will really hit the spot.
Here is a collection of experients he has had in his career of working with animals in the English countryside, full of biting humor and observation that will have you laughing hysterically as well as more than a few that will touch your heart and bring a tear to your eye.
His writing is oberservant, clever, and delightfully simple as to get the story across. It's like he is talking to you, and it is clear that he enjoyed his life.
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