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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: 4.09 · 153,491 ratings · 13,499 reviews · 116 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Town Like Alice 4.16 avg rating — 63,218 ratings — published 1950 — 363 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 3.99 avg rating — 51,155 ratings — published 1957 — 5 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 — 6,029 ratings — published 1960 — 21 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 — 5,434 ratings — published 1942 — 38 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 — 2,766 ratings — published 1952 — 152 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 — 2,700 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 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,201 ratings — published 1948	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 4.11 avg rating — 2,061 ratings — published 1944 — 135 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 4.14 avg rating — 1,895 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 — 1,602 ratings — published 1947 — 128 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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“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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May 2016 New School Group Read

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 478 pages

29 votes, 14.0%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 407 pages

26 votes, 12.6%

1903, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, 172 pages

25 votes, 12.1%

1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie, 288 pages

22 votes, 10.6%

1996, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, 835 pages

19 votes, 9.2%

1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages

17 votes, 8.2%

1913, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, 134 pages

14 votes, 6.8%

1957, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 296 pages

13 votes, 6.3%

1993, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, 448 pages

11 votes, 5.3%

1949, The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, 276 pages

10 votes, 4.8%

1922, Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 356 pages

6 votes, 2.9%

1936, Mephisto by Klaus Mann, 272 pages

6 votes, 2.9%

1924, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 225 pages

4 votes, 1.9%

1933, Lost Horizon by James Hilton, 241 pages

3 votes, 1.4%

1989, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 544 pages

2 votes, 1.0%

207 total votes

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