First American Edition. Basis of the films of the same title.

The Poseidon Adventure

Literature & Fiction

GALLICO, PAUL

Contemporary

Coward, McCann, Geoghegan

The inspiration for the 2006 Warner Bros. film, Poseidon, Paul Gallico's The Poseidon Adventure is an intense and dramatic story about a gigantic ocean liner and its unimaginable final journey.
When a rogue wave capsizes the luxury cruise ship, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. As the unstable vessel rapidly fills with water each must draw on skills and strengths they didn't even know they possessed, fighting against time for their own survival and for each other.
Performed by Dylan Baker

The Poseidon Adventure CD

Genre Fiction

HarperAudio

The inspiration for the 2006 Warner Bros. film, Poseidon, Paul Gallico’s The  Poseidon Adventure is an intense and dramatic story about a gigantic ocean liner and  its unimaginable final journey.    When a rogue wave capsizes the luxury cruise ship, a small group of survivors find  themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives.  As the unstable vessel rapidly fills  with water each must draw on skills and strengths they didn’t even know they possessed,  fighting against time for their own survival and for each other.

Arrow Books

Jennie

Jennie [mass_market] Gallico, Paul [Jun 01, 1963]

Penguin Group USA

Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before her and she's never wanted anything as much before. Determined to make her dream come true, Mrs Harris scrimps, saves and slaves away until one day, after three long, uncomplaining years, she finally has enough money to go to Paris. When she arrives at the House of Dior, Mrs Harris has little idea of how her life is about to be turned upside down and how many other lives she will transform forever. Always kind, always cheery and always winsome, the indomitable Mrs Harris takes Paris by storm and learns one of life's greatest lessons along the way. This treasure from the 1950s introduces the irrepressible Mrs Harris, part charlady, part fairy-godmother, whose adventures take her from her humble London roots to the heights of glamour.

Flowers for Mrs.Harris

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Collins Modern Classics are re-launched in gorgeous new covers bringing these familiar stories to a new generation. From the author of best-loved classic `The Snow Goose'."I was aware, from the very beginning, that I was a most unusual cat..."Thomasina is the beloved pet cat of 7-year-old Mary Ruadh, whose strict father is the town's vet. When Thomasina falls ill, her father sees no other option but to put the cat down. Heartbroken by his cruelty, Mary stops speaking to her father and falls dangerously ill herself.Meanwhile, Thomasina is rescued by Lori, a young woman who lives alone in an isolated glen and is rumoured to be a witch with healing powers.While Lori helps Thomasina recover from her ordeal, Mary's health continues to deteriorate and it is only when Thomasina makes her miraculous return, on a dark and stormy night, and is reunited with her owner that Mary is pulled from the brink of death.

Thomasina

Penguin

'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.

The Snow Goose And the Small Miracle

Pocket_Books

1st Penguin 2754 1967 edition paperback vg++ condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Ludmila and the Lonely

British & Irish

This is Gallico's first published book. It was published by Grosset and Dunlap on the cusp of World War II in 1939. In form, the novel is a connected series of adventures, rather akin to short stories which flow into one another.In the book, Holliday was rewarded with time off and a cash reward which he used to go to Europe. In Europe he fights spies and Nazis, finds his true love, achieves some fame as a foreign correspondent with his newspaper back in New York, and becomes the man of action he aspired to be. The book has the major themes of the protagonist coming to grips with his own character and destiny, how individuals act when confronted by great evil, and the overarching question of would war come to Europe. The book encapsulates Gallico's views and insights at the time of writing, without the hindsight of later events - some of which turned out to be wrong and others were quite accurate.

The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

The Best of Paul Gallico (Penguin paperback)

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The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure CD

The Poseidon Adventure

Jennie

Flowers for Mrs.Harris

Thomasina

The Snow Goose And the Small Miracle

Ludmila and the Lonely

The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

The Best of Paul Gallico (Penguin paperback)