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On the Beach by Nevil Shute.
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Nevil Shute Norway, who wrote under the name Nevil Shute, is not much studied in literature courses, nor are there many articles and books about him; but his annual income from royalties was extensive...
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Critical Essay by Virginia Kirkus' Service
In 1939 Nevil Shute wrote a horrifyingly prophetic book, Ordeal, which made the life of the average citizen under bombardment only too real, as time p...
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Critical Essay by John T. Winterich
[The main premise of "On the Beach"] was made to order for Nevil Shute, who never tells the same story twice and who tells any story surpassingly well...
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Critical Essay by George Harrison
Though we are reading of the last days of humanity on an earth made uninhabitable by radioactivity, no one in ["On the Beach"] gets very excited about i...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Sykes
If ["On the Beach"] … is ever televised, there may be a wilder stampede than Orson Welles wrought two decades ago with his Martians. The time is 196...
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Critical Essay by William Dunlea
Nevil Shute is a journeyman fabulist; fantasy simulating reality is his preserve. A more gifted writer wouldn't be so successful visualizing men and women of a ...
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Critical Essay by Edith Fowke
The theme of Nevil Shute's [On the Beach] is dramatic and awe-inspiring: it is nothing less than the end of the world. Nor is his plot impossible, or even unlikely...
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Critical Essay by David Dempsey
There is always a temptation when an author dies to pay him greater homage in retrospect than was ever given during his lifetime. It is both unnecessary and inappropria...
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Critical Essay by David Martin
On the Beach was the first book of Nevil Shute's I ever read and I confess that it influenced my outlook on the problem of nuclear war and human survival. Until t...
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Critical Essay by Carlton W. Berenda
[In On the Beach] Shute portrays the end of all men upon earth. Not on a planetary or cosmic scale, but through the eyes and hearts of utterly convincing persons, ...
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Critical Essay by Julian Smith
The basic idea for what would become On the Beach grew out of the wishful thinking then current in Australia: that radiation from a nuclear war in the northern hemispher...
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Teaching On the Beach
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On the Beach Lesson Plans contain 117 pages of teaching material, including:
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Critical Essay by Virginia Kirkus' Service
