by Nevil Shute · Macmillan Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780435270483
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«A Town Like Alice» is the graded reader of the novel by Nevil Shute, published by Macmillan Education in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Jean Paget, an Englishwoman in Malaya, is captured by the Japanese during the Second World War and survives a harsh march with other women. Years later, an inheritance prompts her to return to Malaya to help the villagers who saved her, and her journey continues in the remote Australian town of Willstown.
Part of the Heinemann Guided Readers series, intermediate level 18. Adapted by D. R. Hill with illustrations by Kay Mary Wilson. The original novel was published in 1950.
Aimed at intermediate-level English students, within a series of graded readers.
Nevil Shute Norway was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or from fellow engineers that he was "not a serious person" or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.
