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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.
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 Small Miracle is a contemporary fable about a young boy's love for his dangerously ill donkey.
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Mar 13, 2016 · THE SNOW GOOSE. by. PAUL GALLICO. Topics. ENGLISH, AWARD WINNING CHILDREN'S BOOK. Collection. ArvindGupta; JaiGyan. Item Size. 21695577.
He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his most critically successful book, for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation, and for four novels about the beloved character of Mrs. Harris.
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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The moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk. In the marshes of Essex, one of the last wild places left in England, a disfigured artist lives alone in an abandoned lighthouse.
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His days are solitary until one November afternoon, a young girl from a nearby village comes to his door carrying a wounded snow goose in her arms. The unlikely pair develop a friendship that deepens over the ensuing years, waiting together for the arrival of the birds every autumn.