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Nevil Shute

Born

in London, England, The United Kingdom

January 17, 1899

Died

January 12, 1960

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction

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Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer.

He used Nevil Shute as his pen name, and his full name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.

He lived in Australia for the ten years before his death.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 149,363 ratings · 12,975 reviews · 102 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Town Like Alice 4.16 avg rating — 61,861 ratings — published 1950 — 362 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Beach 3.98 avg rating — 49,617 ratings — published 1957 — 425 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trustee from the Toolroom 4.31 avg rating — 5,805 ratings — published 1960 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pied Piper 4.28 avg rating — 5,280 ratings — published 1942 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Far Country 4.04 avg rating — 2,696 ratings — published 1952 — 153 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Requiem for a Wren 4.08 avg rating — 2,624 ratings — published 1955 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Highway 4.01 avg rating — 2,129 ratings — published 1948 — 160 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pastoral 4.10 avg rating — 1,999 ratings — published 1944 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Round the Bend 4.13 avg rating — 1,843 ratings — published 1951 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chequer Board 4.11 avg rating — 1,540 ratings — published 1947 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Nevil Shute (?)

“You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.”
― Nevil Shute, Round the Bend

tags: stupidity

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“It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.”
― Nevil Shute, On the Beach

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“She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done."
"That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.”
― Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

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September 2014 New School Classic -

Which book would you like to read for our August 2014 New School Classic Group Read?

1910, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, 360pp

39 votes, 18.6%

1996, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, 224pp

39 votes, 18.6%

1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581pp

22 votes, 10.5%

1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302pp

21 votes, 10.0%

1944, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, 351pp

16 votes, 7.6%

1928, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 296pp

15 votes, 7.1%

1924, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, 223pp

15 votes, 7.1%

1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 256pp

13 votes, 6.2%

1938, Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day byWinifred Watson, 234pp

10 votes, 4.8%

1913, O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, 176pp

8 votes, 3.8%

1957, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 296pp

5 votes, 2.4%

1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, 128pp

4 votes, 1.9%

1905, Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg,160pp

3 votes, 1.4%

210 total votes

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