All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom [Hardcover]

Sanford V. Sternlicht (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1995

All Things Herriot is the first full-length book about this best-selling author, whose work, adapted for television, has swept through the world in one of the most popular and enduring series of all times: All Creatures Great and Small. Sanford Sternlicht offers a comprehensive, up-to-the-moment evaluation of the Herriot achievements, and it offers the most detailed biography of the real Herriot, James Alfred Wight, in print to date. He explores how this good-natured veterinarian came into existence and how he developed over the course of the series of books. How and why Herriot made the transition to television is examined as well as the effect the shows had on audiences. This is the story of the "creating" of James Herriot, how he captured the imagination of popular culture. This simple man, with his profound love for all creatures in his peaceable kingdom, has earned for himself a secure and enduring place in the hearts and minds of readers and viewers alike. Sanford Sternlicht has contributed to All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom as an author. SANFORD STERNLICHT is Professor of English at Syracuse University. He has published several books of poetry, and his scholarly studies include A Reader's Guide to Modern Irish Drama (1998), Chaim Potok: A Critical Companion (Greenwood, 2000), Student Companion to Elie Wiesel (Greenwood, 2003), and Masterpieces of Modern British and Irish Drama (Greenwood, 2005).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 174 pages
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd); 1st edition (February 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815603223
• ISBN-13: 978-0815603221
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,615,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointed, October 7, 1998

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This review is from: All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom (Hardcover)

I bought this book, sight-unseen, on the name alone. I was very disappointed to find that it read like a college term paper where the student has to fill up a given amount of space and spends most of there time stating the obvious. I feel this book just capitilizes on the Herriot name (a little irreverently, I might add) and nothing more.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Shameless Research, August 31, 2005

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This review is from: All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom (Hardcover)

The author of this ' book ' is a part-time professor of English. You would think with this in mind that he might have bothered to get his facts correct. James Herriot was a wonderful man, and deserved his story to be told with accuracy. The author of this book should be ashamed. Don't waste your money, there are so many better things to read.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Inaccurate book, February 23, 2005

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Marlena O. Faulkner (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom (Paperback)

This book can not be considered non-fiction. The book is full of inaccuracies. So many in fact that the book is useless as a biography of Alf Wight aka James Herriot. Sternlicht shows Wight graduating college in 1937 but in another part of the book the date is listed as 1938. The correct date is 1939. The author also claims that Wight was in the RAF from 1943-1945 when it was actually 1941-1943. He even has the name of his son wrong listing it as Nicholas James when it's James Alexander. There are many more inaccuracies in this book which makes it wise to avoid reading it.