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Shute, Nevil

(Nevil Shute Norway), 1899–1960, English novelist, b. Ealing, Middlesex, grad. Oxford, 1922. After serving in World War I, he was manager of a construction company until 1938. He fought also in World War II and emigrated to Australia in 1950. Shute wrote 26 novels and was one the best-selling novelists of his era. His fast-paced novels usually illustrate moral themes. They include Ordeal (1939), The Pied Piper (1944), On the Beach (1957), and Trustee from the Toolroom (1960).
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(2.) Nevil Shute, Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer (London: Heinemann, 1954), p.
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This reviewer must be typical of so many lovers of popular novels (and one would never use the words 'trashy' or 'pulp') in that Nevil Shute's No Highway was the first story to impact on one's young adult awareness of what novels can do -- their particular magic.
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Sheppard's inclusion of international authors, including Robertson Davies or Nevil Shute, as well as a number of works in translation from France, Italy or Japan, is to be commended, as is his listing of a number of feminist works.
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Though Aldous Huxley, Nevil Shute, Italo Calvino, George Orwell, and Vladimir Nabokov did impressive work, they were little emulated.
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