Talk:A Town Like Alice

U.S. title: The Legacy

Is the book still being published under the title 'the legacy' in the US or is it now being published under the title 'a town like alice'? PicBook (talk) 14:32, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Minor cleanup

Fixed a couple of typos and suchlike. 17:46, 16 November 2008 (UTC+1) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.191.22.133 (talk)

Film

I believe the film portion of the article should have it's own article. Anyone agree? Andrzejbanas (talk) 16:55, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Sexist desciption of themes

It is presumed that a male lawyer is chosen to oversee the money of a woman. The two assumptions being that a woman solicitor was deliberately not chosen, and that a man would not have his inheritance tied up in a trust. Unless the book states that either are the case, the assumption of gender bias is just that, an assumption - which is itself sexist. In the 1930's there were very few female solicitors in London, or anywhere. It was normal, and remains normal, for large estates to be tied up in trusts till the beneficiary reaches a certain age. Irrespective of sex. The ploy of the book is thus not sexist, and quite normal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 01:20, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

References in popular culture

"A Town Called Malice" by The Jam ... 46.208.85.178 (talk) 09:55, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

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Historical accuracy

I've removed "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the novel contains the earliest publication of the word dicey..." from the historical accuracy section. This has nothing whatever to do with historical accuracy, it is also very tangential to the article. According to the OED the book also contains the first published use of chunda (to vomit). I see no need to list that sort of thing in the article.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:57, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

unexplained redirect

"A Town Called Alice" redirects here, but "A Town Called Alice" is not mentioned anywhere in this article, and it is not clear what the relationship or connection is supposed to be. 2A00:23C8:7B09:FA01:9017:7AEE:5070:F5D4 (talk) 22:43, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

It's a common mistake, so it redirects here. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 22:55, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

It is unobvious to the person looking up "A Town Called Alice" that it is a "common mistake" for "A Town Like Alice". Perhaps it is an alternative title. Perhaps it is a related or companion book. This is a fairly common problem at Wikipedia: X redirects to Y, but there is no mention at Y of X. In the mind of the person creating the redirect the connection may have been obvious, but not necessarily so for the reader. 2A00:23C8:7B09:FA01:9017:7AEE:5070:F5D4 (talk) 23:28, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

There is no requirement that a redirect (no mention at Y of X) be mentioned in the article. There are many reasons for creating redirects, and common misspellings are one of them. It may not help you, but it will help the person making such a mistake. They will end up at the right place. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 01:51, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

I agree it is appropriate to have this redirect to deal with an erroneous variant of the name. If you Google "A Town Called Alice", you will find mentions of this title associated with Nevil Shute (so they are definitely talking about the book "A Town Like Alice") and one of them is the title on Amazon (see [1]). But we could add a redirects template so it says at the top "A Town Called Alice" redirects here (when a person is redirected from that name), which warns the reader that they have been landed at an article they might not have been expecting. Would that address the concern? Kerry (talk) 03:16, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Kerry, I don't think the current ill-defined complaint has any legitimacy, but your "add a redirects template" idea does have merit to prevent confusion in the future, so feel free to do that. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 14:29, 29 August 2022 (UTC)