文档介绍：It is reasonably certain that, if a book is to be read second-hand or
even in pirated form, its author would prefer it to be read as he or she
wrote it. Therefore, from respect for the author, the two thousand-
odd errors wrought by 'program' patibility have been corrected.
The author's original text has been retained, therefore the present
English 'ise' verbal termination is seen as 'ize' and the abbreviation of
'I would' mostly as 'I'ld' etc. Mr. Shute was a very considerable author
and story-teller, as this book shows, and he deserves to be read as he
intended. - A publisher and fellow though lesser writer. Nov. '04.
Title: A Town Like Alice
Author: Nevil Shute
First Published: 1951
e-book: , 3 June 2001
A TOWN LIKE ALICE
NEVIL SHUTE
First published 1950 by Wm. Heinemann Ltd.
This edition published 1961 by Pan Books Ltd.
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
W. B. Yeats
James Macfadden died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven
years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point-to-Point.
He left the bulk of his money to his son Douglas. The Macfaddens
and the Dalhousies at that time lived in Perth, and Douglas was a
school friend of Jock Dalhousie, who was a young man then, and had
gone to London to e junior partner in a firm of solicitors in
Chancery Lane, Owen, Dalhousie and Peters. I am now the senior
partner, and Owen and Dalhousie and Peters have been dead for
many years, but I never changed the name of the firm.
It was natural that Douglas Macfadden should put his affairs into
the hands of Jock Dalhousie, and Mr Dalhousie handled them
personally till he died in 1928. In splitting up the work I took Mr
Macfadden on to my list of clients, and forgot about him in the
pressure of other matters.
It was not until 1935 that an