Most Popular Books by Paul Gallico

The rainy-day game she and her two brothers play based on Miranda''s uncanny vision of the old Victorian house that used to stand on the site of their new apartment building has varying and crucial effects on the other tenants.

Professor Constable, a world renowned scientist, believes his daughter, who died of leukemia at the age of 10 years, is trying to communicate with him from beyond the grave.

A stranger comes to the city of Mageia and challenges its inhabitants with a new kind of magic - a magic that restores innocence and faith.

Legendary tales set in Assisi, the Principality of Liechtenstein and on the coast of England.

Während einer Silvesterparty wird der Luxusliner Poseidon von einer gigantischen Flutwelle erfasst und kentert. Für die Überlebenden gibt es nur eine Chance, das Schiff zu verlassen ... Vgl. Kinofilm.

Story of an American reporter who goes behind the Iron Curtain to find out why men confess to crimes they do not commit.

A collection of short stories, each prefaced with background information supplied by the author, as well as an autobiographical sketch.

The author of The Silent Miaow examines the cat in all his infinite variety, moods, and from every aspect--psychological, social, intellectual, and historical. More than 60 charming poems are illustrated by beautiful full-color photographs by famed photographer Nishikawa. Full-color photographs.

Twenty short stories, including nine from "Confessions of a story writer", 1946. Author tells how he wrote and sold each story. Contains autobiographical material.

Pepino is a ten-year-old orphan whose love and livelihood is a donkey called Violetta. Violetta falls ill and Pepino, in desperation, seeks an audience with the Pope.

When storm and fire strike a British circus on tour in Spain, five ill-assorted troupers struggle to keep the animals, themselves and their hopes alive.

Sir Wilmot gives Mrs. ''Arris his support in her campaign for a seat in Parliament for his own devious purposes, but after she is elected she doesn''t like her new job.

A jewel heist, a kidnapping, and the theft of a priceless art collection are among the capers that keep five men called the Zoo Gang busy fighting the criminal underworld on one of the world''s most beautiful beaches.

La señora Harris, una viuda de cierta edad que se dedica a limpiar casas de la clase alta londinense, descubre un buen día, en el armario de una de sus más ricas clientes, un par de vestidos de Dior que la dejan cautivada. Contra todo pronóstico, decide que ella quiere −necesita− uno de esos vestidos, aunque nunca vaya a tener ocasión de llevarlo. Cuando se entera del precio, en lugar de venirse abajo, empieza a ahorrar para conseguir su objetivo e inicia así un largo proyecto que, al cabo de dos años, acabará llevándola a París. Sus aventuras en la casa Dior, de la mano de madame Colbert y la bella modelo Natasha, y sus inopinados atisbos del gran mundo parisino la llevarán por un camino en el que no faltan ni el desprecio ni finalmente la amistad. Flores para la señora Harris (1958) tuvo tanto éxito en su día que su autor, Paul Gallico, llegaría a dedicar al singular personaje tres novelas más. Esta fábula sobre una persona inocente que es capaz de extender su bondad sobre los demás tiene desde luego mucho de cuento de hadas, pero es asimismo una comedia social de espíritu realista, terriblemente aguda y divertida.

Mrs. Harris geht in die Politik. Nicht jeden Tag wird eine Reinemachfrau Abgeordnete im britischen Unterhaus, aber Mrs. Ada Harris schon! Tapfer stellt sie sich vor die Mikros und Kameras und erobert mit ihrer fröhlichen Art schnell die Herzen ihrer Mitmenschen. Aber der Ausflug auf das spiegelglatte politische Parkett bringt auch so manche Stolperfalle mit sich. Doch da taucht Adas bester Freund, der charmante Chauffeur John Bayswater als Retter in der Not auf ...

Mrs. Harris und die Liebe in Zeiten des Kalten Kriegs. Ein englischer Schriftsteller verliebt sich in eine Moskauer Fremdenführerin. Doch die Zusammenführung des west-östlichen Liebespaares scheint unmöglich. Doch nicht für Mrs. Ada Harris! Resolut nimmt sie das Projekt in die Hand und begibt sich mit ihrer besten Freundin Mrs. Violet Butterfield auf eine turbulente Reise in die Sowjetunion und setzt alles daran, dass die Liebe alle Grenzen überwinden kann ...

A nine-year-old boy meets an array of colorful characters when he leaves his home in San Diego and takes a bus trip to Washington, D.C., to patent his toy bubble gun invention

"The Snow Goose" is the story of Philip, a lonely painter who lives in an old lighthouse, and Fritha, a young girl who brings him a large white bird, the snow goose. It becomes a special bird in Philip''s life, and later the girl becomes special too.

On a tour to Moscow won in a raffle, Mrs. ''Arris and friend try to reunite her English employer and his long-lost Russian fiancee.

The story of a wonderful friendship between a little French girl named Cecile and her pet guinea Pig, Jean-Pierre.