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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 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.
The snow goose is a goose who becomes injured and makes a recovery with thanks to the brilliant named Fritha and Philip Rhayader in the midst of the Essex marshes. The goose returns year after year and with it we learn about the characters and the loom of the Second World War and Dunkirk.
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The Snow Goose. By Paul Gallico, first published in The Saturday Evening Post. A physically disabled man lives secluded in an Essex lighthouse for over ten years, where he finds meaning in caring for birds on the beach.
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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Against the backdrop of World War II, friendship develops between a lonely crippled painter and a village girl, when together they minister to an injured snow goose.
- Paul Gallico
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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...
