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The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk is a novella by the American author Paul Gallico. It was first published in 1940 as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post, after which he expanded it to create a short novella which was published on 7 April 1941.
The Snow Goose. Paul Gallico. 4.16. 5,026 ratings681 reviews. Classic storytelling from a bestselling author. Gallico's most famous story, The Snow Goose, is set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes and is an intense and moving tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl.
The Snow Goose is a 1971 British television drama film based on the 1941 novella The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk by Paul Gallico. It won a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Film and was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production.
Nov 15, 1971 · The Snow Goose: Directed by Patrick Garland. With Richard Harris, Jenny Agutter, Graham Crowden, Freda Bamford. An aging artist who lives a solitary life as a lighthouse keeper in an Essex fishing village assists a young orphan girl in caring for a wounded snow goose.
Summary. In the spring of 1930, Philip Rhayader, a gentle twenty-seven-year-old man, purchases and moves into an abandoned lighthouse studio in the Great Marsh, located on the Essex coast of England.
At the beginning of the Second World War, in an Essex fishing village, Fritha, a young orphan, finds a snow goose wounded by shotgun. At the same time, she gets to know Philip Rhayadar, a hunched back artist who lives a solitary life in an abandoned lighthouse in the marshlands.
Mar 9, 2021 · The snow goose, wounded by gunshot and many miles from home, is found by Fritha and, as the human friendship blossoms, can the bird be nursed back to flight? Will Fritha and Rhayander find love or is his sailboat lost at sea?
- Paul Gallico
On the desolate Essex marshes, a young girl, Fritha, comes to seek help from Philip Rhayader, a recluse who lives in an abandoned lighthouse. She carries in her arms a wounded snow goose that has been storm-tossed across the Atlantic from Canada.
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Mar 9, 2021 · The Snow Goose is a simple, short written parable on the regenerative power of friendship and love, set against a backdrop of the horror of World War 2. It documents the growth of a friendship between Philip Rhayader, an artist living a solitary life in an abandoned lighthouse in the marshlands because of his disabilities, and a young local ...
- Paul Gallico
Aug 1, 1992 · Philip Rhayader lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse on the desolate Great Marsh of Essex. One afternoon, a hauntingly beautiful child, Fritha, visits Rhayader, bringing with her an injured...
