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A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance, to ...
A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice. (miniseries) 3 x 1 hour 45 minutes. A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute 's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. [2]
A Town Like Alice was adapted into a film in 1956, serialised for Australian television in 1981, and also broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1997 starring Jason Connery, Becky Hindley, Bernard Hepton and Virginia McKenna. Shute's 1952 novel The Far Country was filmed for television as six one-hour episodes in 1972, and as a two-part miniseries in 1987.
A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British drama film produced by Joseph Janni and starring Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch that is based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute. The film does not follow the whole novel, concluding at the end of part two and truncating or omitting much detail. It was partially filmed in Malaya and Australia.
What Happened to the Corbetts. Categories: Australian novels by writer. British novels by writer. Books by Nevil Shute.
Nevil Shute (1899–1960), A Town Like Alice; Gareth Sibson (born 1977) Una Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955) Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; Dorothy Simpson (born 1933), mystery novels; Helen Simpson (born 1957) Clive Sinclair (1948–2018) Sarah Singleton (born 1966) Indra Sinha (born 1950) Eleanor Sleath (1770 ...
Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926 – December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress .
A Town Like Alice (disambiguation) A Town Like Alice is a 1950 novel by British author Nevil Shute. Other works based on the novel: A Town Like Alice (film), a 1956 film, also known as Rape of Malaya in U.S. cinemas. A Town Like Alice (miniseries), a 1981 Australian mini-series, produced by the Seven Network. A Town Like Alice (song) composed ...