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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 · 146,704 ratings · 12,643 reviews · 85 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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August 2015 New School Classic Poll

1931, Light in August by William Faulkner, 507 pages
 
  21 votes, 16.4%

 
  21 votes, 16.4%

 
  18 votes, 14.1%

1982, Schindler'sList by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
 
  17 votes, 13.3%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  11 votes, 8.6%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages
 
  10 votes, 7.8%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages
 
  9 votes, 7.0%

1950, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 359 pages
 
  9 votes, 7.0%

1956, Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, 384 pages
 
  8 votes, 6.3%

1989, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, 348 pages
 
  4 votes, 3.1%

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