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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 · 149,342 ratings · 12,972 reviews · 101 distinct works • Similar authors
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Round the Bend
4.13 avg rating — 1,843 ratings — published 1951 — 106 editions
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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

February 2015 New School Classic Poll

1958, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages
 
  10 votes, 18.5%

 
  9 votes, 16.7%

1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages
 
  7 votes, 13.0%

 
  6 votes, 11.1%

 
  5 votes, 9.3%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
 
  5 votes, 9.3%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages
 
  4 votes, 7.4%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages
 
  2 votes, 3.7%

1981, The Wave by Morton Rhue, 138 pages
 
  2 votes, 3.7%

 
  2 votes, 3.7%

1927, Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham, 326 pages
 
  1 vote, 1.9%

1969, Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene, 254 pages
 
  1 vote, 1.9%

1955, Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute, 285 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

54 total votes
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