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Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer. [1] Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures. 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 ...
Thomasina, the Cat Who Thought She Was God or Thomasina is a 1957 novel by Paul Gallico about a cat, owned by a child whose strict father must learn that love is powerful enough to help others. [1] The book was adapted for the 1963 Disney film The Three Lives of Thomasina .
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris is a novel written by Paul Gallico and published in 1958. In the United Kingdom, it was published as Flowers for Mrs Harris . It was the first in a series of four books about the adventures of a London charwoman .
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 war. It documents the growth of a friendship between Philip Rhayader, an artist living a solitary life in an abandoned lighthouse in the marshlands of Essex because of his disabilities, and a young local girl, Fritha.
Mary and her friends take Thomasina's body beyond the town for a funeral, but they are frightened by the appearance of "Mad Lori" MacGregor, a young woman who lives in the glen and was attracted by the children's singing and bagpipe playing. The children believe she is a witch because of her apparent power to calm and cure animals.
The couple shares four children: twins Sawyer and Chandler, 7, Hunter, 6, and Tyler, 4. “Last night was long,” she wrote in the now-removed photo. “Back in beds and sleeping, everyone except ...
Paul McCartney and wife Heather Mills McCartney on October 15, 2004. (Jon Kopaloff / FilmMagic) Paul and Heather’s marriage lasted six years; the two finalized their divorce in 2008.
The Poseidon Adventure is an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, published in 1969.It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner, the SS Poseidon, due to an undersea earthquake that causes a 90-foot (27-meter) wave, and the desperate struggles of a handful of survivors to reach the bottom of the liner's hull before the ship sinks.