The Snow Goose (novella)
''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. Plot summary ''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. The snow goose, symbolic of both Rhayader (Gallico) and the world itself, wounded by gunshot and many miles from home, is found by Fritha and, as the human friendship blossoms, the bird is nursed back to flight, and revisits the lighthouse in its migration for several years. As Fritha grows up, Rhayader and his small sailboat eventually are lost in the D ...
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