Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

by Paul Gallico

Book Overview

Ada Harris spends her days dusting, darning, polishing and scrubbing. But her first glimpse of a ravishing Christian Dior dress sets her off on a journey that will change her life forever...From the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006AVMQA
• ISBN13: 9780739480397
• Release Date: January 1958
• Publisher: Doubleday c1957, 1958
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 0.7" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

warm and winning

Witty and warm little book about a char woman whose dream it is to own a Dior dress. A woman's single-minded love of beauty. Optimistic and heart-warming, but never maudlin. Mr. Gallico has an ear for dialect and a feel for human sentiment, with the words to express it succinctly.

A charming little lady

When Mrs Harris , a London cleaning lady, sets her eyes on a Dior dress for the first time, she knows she just has to have one. No mean feat for someone who earns 3 shillings a day. This story is as charming as she is and tells about the lives she changes on her way to reaching her goal. A thoroughly enjoyable read.

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Delightfully Charming!

This book was a delight and charming in every way. Made into a TV movie with the lead played by Angela Landsbury. The sweetest story!

Great Fireside single-seating read.

While visiting a 16th century home in Portugal, we found a first edition hardcover of this little book tucked away on a library shelf. Someone bothered to start to read it. By the end of our vacation all 9 of us had read this gem of a fairy tale. A life long memory for us all.