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Nevil Shute (1899–1960)

Auteur de Le dernier rivage

Comprend les noms: Shute N, N. SHUTE, Neil Shute, Nevi Shute, Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute, Nevil Chute, Nevile Shute, Nevil Schute, Neville Shute ... (voir la liste complète), Neville Shute, by Nevil Shute, neville shutet, Neville Schute, Mr Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute etc., Shute Nevil R2H5, Невил Шют, Norway Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway, Nevil Shute ( Norway ), dit Nevil Nevil Shute Norway Shute, Illustrated by Janina Ede Nevil Shute

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Nevil Shute Norway was born in Ealing, London, England, on January, 17 1899. At the age of 11, Norway played truant from his first preparatory school in Hammersmith. After he was discovered, he was sent to the Dragon School, Oxford, and from there to Shrewsbury. He was on holiday in Dublin at the time of the Easter rising of 1916 and acted as an ambulance driver, winning a commendation for gallant conduct. He then entered the Royal Military Academy, intending to be commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps, but a bad stammer led to his being failed at his final medical examination and returned to civil life. The last few months of the war were spent on home service as a private in the Suffolk Regiment. In 1919, Norway went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a third class honors course in engineering science in 1922. During the vacations he worked, unpaid, as an aeronautical engineer, for the Aircraft Manufacturing Company at Hendon, and then for Geoffrey de Havilland's own firm, which he joined as an employee upon finishing at Oxford. He learned to fly and gained experience as a test observer. During the evenings he diligently wrote novels and short stories unperturbed by rejection slips from publishers. In 1924 Norway took the post of Chief Calculator to the Airship Guarantee Company, to work on the construction of the R100. In 1929 he became Deputy Chief Engineer under Barnes Wallis, and in the following year he flew to and from Canada in the R100. After the end of the airship project, jobs were hard to come by due to the depression so Shute started an aircraft manufacturing company, Airspeed Limited. This company was ultimately successful and built a large number of aircraft during the war. Shute remained joint managing director until 1938. When the business became too routine, he decided to get out of the rut and live by writing. The de Havillands, the first aviation job Shute had ever had, wound up buying Airspeed Ltd. He had by then enjoyed some success as a novelist and had sold the film rights of Lonely Road and Ruined City. At the outbreak of war in 1939, Norway joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Miscellaneous Weapons Department. Rising to Lieutenant Commander, he found experimenting with secret weapons a job after his own heart. But he found that his growing celebrity as a writer caused him to be in the Normandy landings on 6th June 1944, for the Ministry of Information, and to be sent to Burma as a correspondent in 1945. He entered Rangoon with the 15th Corps from Arakan. Soon after demobilisation in 1945 he emigrated to Australia and made his home in Langwarrin, Victoria. His output of novels, which began with Marazan (1926) continued to the end. Shute was one of the leading aeronautical engineers in Britain during the 30's and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. When he began writing in the 20's, he feared that a reputation as a writer of fiction might harm his engineering career. For this reason he published under his two Christian names, Nevil Shute and engineered under his "real" name, Nevil S. Norway. Nevil Shute Norway died in Melbourne on January, 12 1960. (Bowker Author Biography) — biographie de Le dernier rivage… (plus d'informations)
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Œuvres de Nevil Shute
Le dernier rivage 4,679 exemplaires, 171 critiques
A Town Like Alice 3,565 exemplaires, 141 critiques
Trustee from the Toolroom 859 exemplaires, 28 critiques
Pied Piper 850 exemplaires, 35 critiques
No Highway 566 exemplaires, 20 critiques
The Far Country 556 exemplaires, 15 critiques
Pastoral 556 exemplaires, 12 critiques
Requiem for a Wren 524 exemplaires, 20 critiques
The Chequer Board 520 exemplaires, 11 critiques
Round the Bend 477 exemplaires, 14 critiques
In the Wet 429 exemplaires, 12 critiques
Old Captivity 424 exemplaires, 59 critiques
Most Secret 418 exemplaires, 11 critiques
The Rainbow and the Rose 378 exemplaires, 11 critiques
Slide Rule 342 exemplaires, 8 critiques
Landfall 314 exemplaires, 12 critiques
Beyond the Black Stump 314 exemplaires, 7 critiques
What Happened to the Corbetts 299 exemplaires, 8 critiques
Ruined City 291 exemplaires, 4 critiques
So Disdained 265 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Marazan 257 exemplaires, 8 critiques
Lonely Road 240 exemplaires, 5 critiques
Stephen Morris 178 exemplaires, 5 critiques
On the Beach (abridged) 67 exemplaires, 2 critiques
A Town Like Alice [Macmillan Readers] 47 exemplaires, 1 critique
A Town Like Alice (New Windmills) 44 exemplaires, 5 critiques
A Town Like Alice / Pied Piper / The Far Country / The Chequer Board / No… 40 exemplaires
Vinland the Good 36 exemplaires, 2 critiques
A Town Like Alice / The Far Country / On the Beach 23 exemplaires
No Highway / A Town Like Alice / On the Beach 15 exemplaires
The Seafarers 13 exemplaires
Ruined City / Landfall 10 exemplaires
Marazan;: [and], So disdained ([His Complete works]) 4 exemplaires
Three Novels: Requiem for a Wren; An old Captivity; Pastoral 4 exemplaires
What Happened to the Corbetts | Pastoral 4 exemplaires
Complete Works Set of 12 Volumes: Pied Piper; on the Beach; Most Secret;… 3 exemplaires
Mannen med seljefløytene. En by som Alice. Den siste bredd 2 exemplaires
Delphi Complete Works of Nevil Shute 2 exemplaires
The Big Country (includes A Town Like Alice & Alice to Nowhere) - Volume 2… (Contributeur) 2 exemplaires
Omnibus: Pastorale; Onder de sterren der woestijn; De laatste oever 2 exemplaires
See List 2 exemplaires
The Nevil Shute Collection (22 Books Including On The Beach, A Town Like… 1 exemplaire
Million tomorrow. On the Beach. Space doctor 1 exemplaire
Крысолов. На берегу 1 exemplaire
Formynderen 1 1 exemplaire
Most Secret AND The Legacy 1 exemplaire
Formynderen 2 1 exemplaire
Nevil Shute - Complete Works - 24 Novels (Books) and a Biography published… 1 exemplaire
Obras completas : Nevil Shute (II) 1 exemplaire
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Également par Nevil Shute
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two (Contributeur) 74 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Armes secrètes (Avant-propos, quelques éditions) 74 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Once is enough (Avant-propos, quelques éditions) 65 exemplaires, 4 critiques
A Town like Alice [1981 TV mini series] (Original novel) 43 exemplaires, 1 critique
On the Beach [1959 film] (Original book) 40 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1976 v01 (Contributeur) 28 exemplaires
A Town Like Alice [1956 film] (Original book) 24 exemplaires, 1 critique
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1960 v03 (Auteur) 18 exemplaires
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1959 v01 (Contributeur) 15 exemplaires
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Jaws • A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax • The… 6 exemplaires
On the Beach [2000 film] (Original book) 5 exemplaires
The Captain, Children of Hope, No Highway, The Last Eagle, The Double… 3 exemplaires
The Far Country [1988 TV movie] (Original book) 3 exemplaires
Het Beste Boek 75: Kruistocht der liefde / Leeuwen in de nacht / De… (Auteur) 3 exemplaires, 1 critique
Kirjavaliot - Mengelen pojat (The boys from Brazil) / Luottamustehtävä… 3 exemplaires
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