Arnold Baise is a computer programmer with Information Builders, a software development company in New York. His introduction to Ayn Rand and Objectivism came more than thirty years ago when he read The Fountainhead as a college student in South Africa, He has a particular interest in Rand's ideas on art and aesthetics. His admiration for The Snow Goose began more than twenty years ago when he heard a sound recording of a dramatization of the story, starring the late British-born actor Herbert Marshall. Beautifully written in simple, lyrical prose, The Snow Goose is a moving story about love and courage, with an ending that is unforgettable. Overall, I really didn't like this book. I had to force myself to read it, only because I usually feel obligated to finish books I start.

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In 2002, William Fiennes published The Snow Geese – a travel book about the snow goose and its migrations. The author was inspired by reading The Snow Goose as a child. I thought when I bought the book that The Snow Geese would be part memoir/part travel diary (a bit like Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson) but instead it was a book filled almost completely with tangents. Fiennes is a good writer and some of his descriptions are evocative and lovely but there doesn't seem to be a real central theme to the book. For me the most cohesive part of the book is at the very beginning where Fiennes is describing his illness, some of his school-days and his family home. For the rest of the time he doesn't talk about himself at all. He describes in detail the clothing of every person he meets and the conversations he has with them and the various places he stops in along the way but there were no real personal insights or the sense that he really learns anything meaningful on this epic journey through America. Hey, die Idee klingt spannend. Er trifft auch viele interessante Menschen auf dem Weg, deren Geschichten seltsamerweise alle spannender sind als seine eigene. (Oder warum erzählt er sie?)

Critic Robert van Gelder called it "perhaps the most sentimental story that ever has achieved the dignity of a Borzoi [prestige imprint of publisher Knopf] imprint. It is a timeless legend that makes use of every timeless appeal that could be crowded into it". [2] A public library put it on a list of 'tearjerkers'. Gallico made no apologies, saying that in the contest between sentiment and 'slime', "sentiment remains so far out in front, as it always has and always will among ordinary humans that the calamity-howlers and porn merchants have to increase the decibels of their lamentations, the hideousness of their violence and the mountainous piles of their filth to keep in the race at all." [3] Popular culture [ edit ] Rothe, Anna, ed. (1947). Current Biography, 1946: Who's News and why. New York: H.W. Wilson Company. p.202. ISBN 978-0-8242-0112-8. Der Ich-Erzähler verfällt im Zuge eines langen Genesungsprozesses der Faszination der Vogelwelt, insbesondere den Schneegänsen. Und dann waren da noch Mauersegler, Rotschwanzbussarde, Sumpfhordenvögel, Nordamerikanische Schneefinken, Purpurgimpel, diverse Entenarten, Reiher, Kraniche und wasweißichnoch für Geflügel. Da beschließt er dann den Schneegänsen, welche ja Zugvögel sind, quer über den nordamerikanischen Kontinent (Texas – Baffin Bay, Kanada) zu folgen, mit ihnen zu reisen. The character Rhayader is loosely based on ornithologist, conservationist and painter Peter Scott, [ citation needed] who also did the illustrations for the first illustrated English edition of the book, using his first wife Elizabeth Jane Howard as the model for Fritha. [11]

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There’s far too much mawkish sentimentality over unspoken love, and tragic and needless death, and so on, but it felt manipulative of the author rather than genuine. I wasn’t saddened by the ending, I just wondered what the point of it was. It’s much too brief a story to make you feel anything about any of the “characters”. So, Rhayader – who has never been given any reason to love his fellow man – heads to France to save who he can. The snow goose flying overhead. The Snow Goose is set in the years running up to the evacuation of Dunkirk in the Second World War. Originally published in 1940 in the Saturday Evening Post, it was brought out in book form the following year by Knopf, Michael Joseph and M&S simultaneously. It won the prestigious O Henry prize that same year and has been continually in print ever since. The Snow Goose has inspired a number of musical scores and albums, has been made into two feature films and moved generations of readers. A new feature film will be released in the coming year.Snow Goose recording". The Times. No.59868. London, England. 23 November 1976. p.11 . Retrieved 19 May 2019.