Paul Gallico Bücher

Philip Rhayader is a painter. He lives alone in an old, empty lighthouse. But his life changes when a young girl from the village brings him a snow goose. It is hurt and he and the girl must look after it. This haunting tale is one of three stories in this collection, the others are The Doll and The Silver Swans.

Paul Gallico's 'Scruffy' is the hilarious fictional account of the infamous apes of Gibraltar during World War Two. Based on the ancient legend that when the Rock Apes die out, the British will lose Gibraltar, so deep-rooted is this belief that in 1944 Winston Churchill actually caused a signal to be sent to Gibraltar expressing anxiety over rumours concerning the apes and directing that every effort must be made to restore their dwindling number. Out of this historical fact, the author's imagination has made a wonderfully entertaining story. The Rock Apes are in charge of one Captain Tim Bailey, and his loyal side-kick Lovejoy whose biggest problem in life is Scruffy.

Stories included: Man Overboard (Sir Winston Churchill) Timber (John Galsworthy) The Angry Street (G. K. Chesterton) The Call of Wings (Agatha Christie) The Cherries (Lawrence Durrell) A Man From Glasgow (Somerset Maugham) Earth to Earth (Robert Graves) The Grey Ones (J. B. Priestley) The Man Who Didn't Ask Why (C. S. Forester) All But Empty (Graham Greene) Animals or Human Beings (Angus Wilson) Something Strange (Kingsley Amis) The Post-Mortem Murder (Sinclair Lewis) The Dance (F. Scott Fitzgerald) A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner) The Bronze Door (Raymond Chandler) A Man Who Had No Eyes (MacKinlay Kantor) The Affair at 7 Rue de M-- (John Steinback) The Snail Watcher (Patricia Highsmith) Inferiority Complex (Evan Hunter) The Terrible Answer (Paul Gallico) Miriam (Truman Capote) Exterminator (William Burroughs) During the Jurassic (John Updike)

Did you run across that queer sort of legend about a wild goose? It was all up and down the beaches. You know how those things spring up. Some of the men I brought back were talking about it. It was supposed to have appeared at intervals the last days between Dunkirk and La Panne. If you saw it, you were eventually saved. That sort of thing. Hmm, a wild goose. I saw a tame one. Dashed strange experience. Tragic in a way too. And lucky for us. Tell you about it... The Snow Goose is a beautiful tale of a hunchbacked artist, a girl, a wounded bird and a courageous act at Dunkirk. Also included in this volume is The Small Miracle a contemporary fable inspired by St Francis of Assisi. Both tales are endearing classics of the storyteller's art.

Die Geschichte folgt der siebenjährigen Mary, deren Welt zerbricht, als ihre geliebte Katze Thomasina von ihrem strengen Vater, dem Tierarzt der Stadt, als zu krank zum Überleben eingestuft wird. Herzzerreißend und stumm gegenüber ihrem Vater sieht sich Mary mit ihrer eigenen lebensbedrohlichen Krankheit konfrontiert. In der Zwischenzeit wird Thomasina von Lori, der geheimnisvollen Roten Hexe, gerettet und in Talitha verwandelt, ein mächtiges Wesen mit Verbindungen zu einer ägyptischen Göttin, die nun zurückkehrt, um Rache zu nehmen. Themen von Liebe, Verlust und Transformation verweben sich in dieser magischen Erzählung.

De resolute, maar daarom niet minder liefdevolle Ada Harris gaat ditmaal naar Amerika om te proberen een verlaten jochie te herenigen met zijn vader, een voormalig Amerikaans soldaat. Het verhaal van Ada Harris' reis naar New York, haar ontmoeting met de enige man die de kleine Henry de Verenigde Staten kon binnen goochelen en haar uiteindelijk geslaagde poging, die een kinderloos echtpaar gelukkig maakt, levert een hartveroverende roman op.

A young girl called Mouche is about to throw herself into the Seine, when her attention is attracted by a voice. It turns out to be the voice of a glove puppet, called Carrot Top. She then meets Reynard the fox, Gigi, Alifanfaron, Dr Duclos, Madame Muscat and Monsieur Nicholas. The story is about her relationship with the seven puppets and their grim puppetmaster, Capitaine Coq, and what happens when she joins their travelling show. This is another of Paul Gallico's brilliant short novels. You find yourself thinking, as Mouche does, of the puppets as individuals, and completely forgetting that they are only puppets.