Tondemo Nezumi Daikatsuyaku: Manxmouse ( Manxmouse's Great Activity, known in English as The Legend of Manxmouse) In 2005, a televised disaster film titled The Poseidon Adventure, which was a remake of the movie inspired by Gallico's novel, was aired; the Captain, played by Peter Weller, is named after Gallico. A lengthy extract of this book can be found in a nice book called The Personality of the Cat, published by Crown in the US in 1958.. This book is no longer in print in either the US or the UK, However, second-hand editions are reasonable easy to find - and it is not difficult to find quite nice first editions.

The television series The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (starring Wally Cox) was adapted from a series of Gallico's stories about a newspaper proofreader who had many adventures dealing with Nazis and spies in Europe on the eve of World War II. Though his name was well-known in the United States, he was an unknown in the rest of the world. In 1941, the Snow Goose changed all that, and he became, if not a best-selling author by today's standards, a writer who was always in demand. Apart from a short spell as a war correspondent between 1943 and 1946, he was a full-time freelance writer for the rest of his life. He has lived all over the place, including England, Mexico, Lichtenstein and Monaco, and he lived in Antibes for the last years of his life.Almost all the facts about cat in this book are true. The writer clearly has done an amazing job on researching cats. In Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis', a man gets up in the morning and discovers that he has been transformed into a giant bug. What happens to him and how he handles that transformation forms the rest of the story. It is dark and bleak. Kafka seems to have been an intense, serious person, and his imagination seems to have flown into dark alleys. In contrast, Paul Gallico seems to have been a happy person. Paul Gallico wonders what will happen, if instead of something dark and bleak like a giant bug, a human being gets transformed into something adorable, like a cat. What happens then? A beautiful book called 'Jennie' happens. Jennie can't believe that Peter is really a human boy at first. WIll Peter learn the ways of cats, stay that way, or somehow manage to return to his old life? Would he want to? However, I probably would have survived -- we are still requiring grade-school children to read Where the Red Fern Grows, aren't we? -- and I think I would let young children read this book as long as someone was there to spend a lot of time answering questions and drying tears and offering lots of chocolate. Amazingly, Gallico was born in America and spent most of his life there. He did travel, and lived outside the US from 1950 until his death in 1976, but still. He's got the Queen's English down pat and his London is authentic enough to fool an Englishman. I assumed he was English until I finished the book and looked up information about its history.

a b c d Ivins, Molly, " Paul Gallico, Sportswriter And Author, Is Dead at 78", The New York Times, July 17, 1976. Retrieved Oct. 25, 2020. 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. Harris.Jennie" (1950) is a tour-de-force of what it's like to be a cat (as best we can imagine). Gallico apparently enjoyed that exercise: he wrote a book in 1964 called "The Silent Miaow" - "translated from the feline" - a cat's guide to how to obtain, captivate and dcminate a human family.

When reading dated books, sometimes one must look past certain past held beliefs, that today would be seen as completely wrong-headed and disgusting. With some books this is easier to do than with others. Take, for example, Five Children and It, which was published in 1902. Of course it is completely classist, racist and includes many painfully bad caricatures, which might cause modern readers to cringe. However, it is still hilariously funny and well written and an adventure to read. Many classical books contain such ideas that are problematic for modern readers, yet that doesn't mean they are not good books or books that shouldn't be read.In 1937, in Gallico's "Farewell to Sport" he stated, "For all her occasional beauty and unquestioned courage, there has always been something faintly ridiculous about the big-time lady athletes."