On the Beach
ISBN-13:
9780099530251
Veröffentl:
2009
Einband:
B-format paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.09.2009
Seiten:
312
Autor:
Nevil Shute
Gewicht:
230 g
Format:
199x128x25 mm
Serie:
Vintage Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Nevil Shute was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan, in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
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