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Nevil Shute


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
January 17, 1899

Died
January 12, 1960

Genre
Fiction, Nonfiction


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 · 148,225 ratings · 12,845 reviews · 88 distinct works • Similar authors
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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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Polls

October 2020 New School Group Read

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, 1935, 256 pages
 
  82 votes, 26.7%

 
  51 votes, 16.6%

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende, 1998, 432 pages
 
  48 votes, 15.6%

Blindness by José Saramago, 1995, 326 pages
 
  39 votes, 12.7%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pages
 
  31 votes, 10.1%

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, 1957, 220 pages
 
  29 votes, 9.4%

On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 1957, 296 pages
 
  27 votes, 8.8%

307 total votes
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