![]() In 1981 the book was turned into a world wide award winning mini-series for Australian television starring Helen Morse and Bryan Brown, it is superb!Īfter World War II, a young English woman named Jean Paget learns that she has inherited a legacy from her great uncle. It is a shame that dozens of Shute’s novels do not sit on the shelves of modern bookstores. During his lifetime Shute was one of the most popular writers in the world and his most famous book, On The Beach, while justly famous as the only close-ended novel ever written (no one in the book survives after the final page) is one of his lesser efforts. Many of his characters are aviators, engineers, and geologists. Shute was a trained engineer and science plays a huge role in many of his books. He often explored unusual themes like reincarnation, utopian visions ( In The Wet i s a very entertaining variation of Brave New World.) Nevil Shute was the author of 30+ novels and can best be described as “old fashioned.” His books are literate, with a distinctly British view, but also very worldly. ![]() ![]() It is an unbashedly romantic tale that I have read more than a dozen times. In 1998, Modern Library voted A Town Like Alice #17 on the list of 100 Greatest English-language Novels of 20th Century. It is also known as The Legacy. This is one of the best books of the 20th century. ![]()
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