HERON BOOKS Part Collection of NEVIL SHUTE Books 12 of Set PRE-OWNED VINTAGE

  

VERY GOOD VINTAGE PRE-OWNED Condition - some yellowing to pages as befits age and storage (See Photos). Nevil Shute Complete Works - Part Collection. This pre-loved vintage book collection by Heron Books features a variety of titles by Nevil Shute, all in hardcover format and with an integrated ribbon bookmark. The books are unabridged and come with an original English language text. The collection includes novels from the modernism era, with topics covering society and world literature.

The books are suitable for young adults and adults and are illustrated by Geoffrey Plant. This book collection does not come with personalisation, inscriptions or ex libris, and is not signed by the author. The Rainbow and The Rose. What Happened To The Corbetts. Was an English-born novelist and aeronautical engineer who later spent much of his life in Australia. He wrote under the pen name Nevil Shute to protect his engineering career from any potential adverse publicity related to his novels. Some of his most famous works include "On the Beach" and "A Town Like Alice". Shute was educated at Shrewsbury, served in the British army late in World War I, and then completed his education at the University of Oxford. He became an aeronautical engineer, a job he combined with his career as a novelist until the late 1930s. Following World War II, he left England and settled in Australia with his wife and daughters. Marazan (1926) was the first of 25 books Shute wrote in a career that spanned 30 years.

His major works include So Disdained (1928) and What Happened to the Corbetts (1939), a foretaste of World War II's bombing of civilians. His later novels-all set in Australia-reflected a growing feeling of despair about the future. A Town Like Alice (1950) dealt with the Pacific theatre of World War II. In On the Beach Shute describes the effect of an atomic war and vividly pictures the complete destruction of humanity. It was adapted as a 1959 film of the same title directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.