The Purple Plain (novel)
{{short description|1947 novel}}
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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| genre = War
| publisher = Michael Joseph
Little, Brown (US)
| release_date = 1947
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The Purple Plain is a 1947 war novel by the British writer H. E. Bates. It is set during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.
Synopsis
The novel's prose is straight-forwardly direct and presents a vivid and harrowing account of human determination to survive in the face of a merciless natural world.
Film adaptation
In 1954, it was adapted into a British film The Purple Plain directed by Robert Parrish and starring Gregory Peck, Win Min Than and Bernard Lee.Goble p.29
References
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Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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Category:Novels set during World War II
Category:Novels set in Myanmar
Category:British novels adapted into films
Category:Novels by H. E. Bates
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