A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired. It stars Helen Morse in the lead role of Jean Paget, with Bryan Brown as Joe Harman and Scottish actor Gordon Jackson as the aging lawyer and trustee Noel Strachan. The series won an International
The Town (Faulkner novel) in the course of the trilogy. Owen Robinson has noted the contrast in the narrative style and tone between "The Hamlet" and "The Town". Thomas H Rogers commented critically, in his contemporary review of the novel, in his comparison between the literary merits of "The Hamlet" and "The Town". Peter Swiggart has noted that the events and style in "The Town" reflect Faulkner's attempts to create a more realistic social milieu compared to his other works. The Town (Faulkner novel) The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of