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Line 1: {{work}} {{Multiple Works Need Separate Pages}} Nevil Shute's 1950 novel tells the story of Jean Paget as a prisoner of war in Malaya during [[World War II]] and then her return to Malaya after the war, where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia. Adapted into a 1956 film and a 1981 miniseries. ▼ {{Needs Image}} ▲[[Nevil Shute]]'s 1950 novel '''''A Town Like Alice''''' tells the story of Jean Paget as a prisoner of war in Malaya during [[World War II]] and then her return to Malaya after the war, where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia. ~~Adapted into a 1956 film and a 1981 miniseries.~~ {{Needs More Info}} ~~----~~ ~~=== Contains such tropes as: ===~~ This novel was adapted into [[A Town Like Alice (film)\|a 1956 film]] and [[A Town Like Alice (miniseries)\|a 1981 miniseries]]. * [[A Friend in Need]] : Joe, the Old Japanese Soldier as well, the village headman who takes them in.▼ {{tropelist}} * [[Aussies With Artillery]] * [[Beau Geste]] : Joe ends up crucified for Jeane. He survives by manipulating the Japanese officer's odd version of [[Honor Before Reason]]. Line 12 ⟶ 16: * [[Cowboy]] : Joe does this for a living. * [[Florence Nightingale Effect]] : Sort of, Joe isn't a doctor but he is [[The Caretaker]]. ▲* [[A Friend in Need]] : Joe, the Old Japanese Soldier as well, the village headman who takes them in. * [[Going Native]] : The women live out the war by picking rice in a Malayan village. * [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] : Noel does this knowing he is to old for Jeane. Joe does this at first thinking Jeane to be married. Line 21 ⟶ 26: * [[Rancher]]: Joe Bannock didn't own it til the end. * [[Spirited Young Lady]] : Jean Paget. * [[~~Upperclass~~Upper Class Twit]] : The rubber plantation owner's wife who only thinks it necessary to learn enough Malayan to give orders to the servants. * [[Wasteland Elder]] : The Malayan headman. * [[World War II]] {{reflist}} {{The Big Read}} [[Category:~~A Town Like Alice~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:The Fifties]] [[Category:Lit Fic]] [[Category:Masterpiece Theatre]] [[Category:~~The~~Military ~~Fifties~~and Warfare Films]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Town Like Alice, A}} [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Films of the 1950s]] ▲[[Category:A Town Like Alice]]