James Herriot

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In this article, the writer looks at five short stories written by English veterinarian, James Herriot. The writer discusses Herriot's popular work, based on his practice, the animals and various other accounts of his life. Further, the writer notes that Herriot generally avoids the anthropomorphizing of animals indulged in by others and instead presents them as animals now in a human world, a domesticated world on the farm and in the home, still in his native Yorkshire.

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"James Herriot is a veterinarian practicing in Yorkshire in England, and he achieved great popularity writing about his practice and his "patients" in books like "All Creatures Great and Small" and numerous other accounts of his life. His popularity was greatly extended by a television version of his work first on British television and then replayed in America. He has also written a number of short stories about animals, collected in the book James Herriot's Animal Stories in which the author presents stories about different animals and the human beings who interact with them."

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