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"A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance."
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A TOWN LIKE ALICE tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life....
Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London.After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
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Seller: Hamelyn, Madrid, Spain
Condition: Bueno. : Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean's search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals. EAN: 9780435270483 Tipo: Libros Título: Town like Alice Hill Hgr Int Autor: Nevil Shute Editorial: Macmillan Education Idioma: EN Páginas: 96. Seller Inventory # Happ-2023-02-16-bc34c388
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Condition: Good+. A good+ paperback signs of use as in image, text block clean/tight slightly aged, FON. Illustrated by Kay Mary Wilson . 89p. 18x11cm. 150gr. Seller Inventory # PC4168
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tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. English language, Textbooks for foreigners., Text-books for foreign speakers., Novel Heinemann Educational. London. 1977. 18cm. [6],89p : ill, 1map. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Idioma Inglés. Nevil Shute ; retold by D. R. Hill ; illustrated by Kay Mary Wilson. Heinemann guided readers. intermediate level 18. intermediate level 18. Shute, Nevil 1899-1960. Town like Alice. Adaptations . ISBN: 0435270486 (pbk) (=3074260=) LA159. Seller Inventory # 3074260
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Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60147520: 1979. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos frotté, Papier jauni. 89 pages. Texte en anglais. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc hors texte. Mouillures. Nombreuses pliures sur les plats. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. Seller Inventory # RO60147520
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