A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice 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 generate economic prosperity in a small outback community — to turn it into "a town like Alice" i.e. Alice Springs. The story falls broadly into three parts. In Post-World War II London,
The Town (Richter novel) Ohio University Press released paperback editions of "The Awakening Land" trilogy in 1991. Chicago Review Press issued reprints of the original Knopf editions in 2017. The Town (Richter novel) The Town (1950) is a novel written by American author Conrad Richter. It is the third installment of his trilogy The Awakening Land. "The Trees" (1940) and "The Fields" (1946) were the earlier portions of the series. "The Town" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. In September 1966, his publisher Alfred A. Knopf reissued the trilogy for the first time as a single hardcover volume. According to the