Animals and Other People

by Louis Bromfield, Paul Laune (Illustrator)

Here is a book to delight people of all ages—excepting only those having no interest in living creatures. For this engaging volume, the author has drawn on his early books, revising and adding new material. "Animals and Other People" is about wild and domestic animals, about pets—ranging from a wild tom turkey to a mongoose—and about people who are "teched" and have that inner sense and mystical feeling which makes them one with nature and with animals and birds. The book ranges from comedy to tragedy; which the "teched" know are as much a part of the lives of animals as of people. The stories are sensitive and intimate, for Bromfield is aware that every animal and bird has a personality of its own and that even among cows there are music lovers, clowns and termagants. As his youngest daughter once remarked as a child, "The trouble with the animals on this farm is that they all think they're people." This is decidedly a book for people who love living creatures, and the smell of the spring earth underfoot, whose spirits expand at the sight of a beautiful forest or a leaping trout, whose hearts turn suddenly warm at the feel of a dog's nose on their knees or the sight of a wobbly foal just come into the world. And it is, above all, for those who have known that great and noble and affectionate breed of dogs called boxers and so are set apart from other people.

223 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1955

About the author

Louis Bromfield was an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts.

Bromfield studied agriculture at Cornell University from 1914 to 1916,[1] but transferred to Columbia University to study journalism. While at Columbia University, Louis Bromfield was initiated into the fraternal organization Phi Delta Theta. His time at Columbia would be short lived and he left after less than a year to go to war. After serving with the American Field Service in World War I and being awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor, he returned to New York City and found work as a reporter. In 1924, his first novel, The Green Bay Tree, won instant acclaim. He won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for best novel for Early Autumn. All of his 30 books were best-sellers, and many, such as The Rains Came and Mrs. Parkington, were made into successful motion pictures.

photograph by: Carl Van Vechten

Reviews

[Katherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Bromfield so I loved this.