The Purple Plain the three men struggle to survive in the hostile environment, the self-destructive Bill finally realises that he can depend on support from others and that he may have someone to live for. Blore, however, abandons them to attempt to return to the crash site and commits suicide. "The Purple Plain" is regarded generally as historically accurate with good production values and attention to detail, and depicts the native Burmese in a respectful manner. The film is based on the 1947 novel "The Purple Plain" by H. E. Bates, one of three novels he wrote after his travels to Burma and
E (novel) in several countries." For some time, Miller Shanks even had their own (fictitious) web site, "www.millershanks.com" (no longer active) for readers to browse through. Beaumont also wrote a short sequel to the novel, "The e Before Christmas" (2000), and a complete sequel entitled "e Squared" (2010) incorporating text messaging content alongside emails. E (novel) e (originally subtitled "The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers") is a comic novel by Matt Beaumont first published in 2000. Written in the epistolary tradition, it consists entirely of e-mails written between the employees of an advertising agency and some of their business partners.