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 History of a Town "A Little Organ") appeared in the No.1 issue of "Otechestvennye Zapiski". A pause followed and lasted till the end of the year: the author wrote and published several satirical fairytales ("The Tale of How One Peasant Fed Two Generals", "The Lost Consciousness", "A Rabid Landlord" and others), started the new series called "Tashkenters" (Gospoda Tashkentsy) and finished "Sign of the Times" and "Letters About a Province" cycles. The rest of the novel was published in issues No.1-4, 9, 1870, of "Otechestvennye Zapiski". In 1870 the novel came as a separate edition under the title The History of a Town, subtitled: