by Nevil Shute · Macmillan Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781405073165
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«A Town Like Alice» is the novel by Nevil Shute adapted as a graded reader, published by Macmillan Education in paperback (96 pages, in English).
In 1940, in Malaya, Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, is captured by the Japanese along with a group of women and children and forced to undertake a long march through the jungle. After the war, Jean settles in Australia, where she begins a new life, but decides to return to the village where she was imprisoned to help rebuild it.
The novel was originally published in 1950; this edition is from 2005 and belongs to the Macmillan Readers series, at Intermediate level.
For intermediate-level students of English as a foreign language who want to read an adapted classic.
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.
