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.
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)
The story follows seven-year-old Mary, whose world shatters when her beloved cat, Thomasina, is deemed too sick to survive by her stern father, the town vet. Heartbroken and silent towards her father, Mary faces her own life-threatening illness. Meanwhile, Thomasina is saved by Lori, the enigmatic Red Witch, and transformed into Talitha, a powerful being with ties to an Egyptian goddess, now returning for vengeance. Themes of love, loss, and transformation intertwine in this magical tale.
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.
A Story of Liechtenstein
