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 ...
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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 wel...
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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 ...
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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 19...
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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 unlikel...
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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 inappropri...
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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 ...
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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 hemisphe...
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Teaching On the Beach
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Recently, I found myself sitting at a small, child-size table at a hotel in Istanbul with a short but well-built 44-year-old American wearing pookah shells. He was a native New Yorker—grew up...
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Sydney (dpa) - British backpacker Scott Osbourne was sleeping
under the stars on an Australian east-coast beach when a four-wheel-
drive ran over him.
"I've g...
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Castel di Tusa, Italy (dpa) - In a memorable scene from Akira
Kurosawa's 1990 movie Dreams, a man wanders around the paintings of
Vincent Van Gogh. At the Atelier Sul Mare h...
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A boy who was bitten multiple times by a Rottweiler running free on a Hawaiian beach was awarded $856,000 by a jury that concluded the dog's owner was negligent.Keeton Manguso, who was 2 1/2 years ...
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For the past week, the residents of Fiesta Beach have included uptight horses, frightened finches and designer dogs — as well as pet owners trying to make it all seem like home.The island in ...
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Q. I plan to take my MP3 player, digital camera and cell phone to the beach this summer. How can I protect them from damage?A. If you follow a few commonsense tips, you can hit the sand and surf wi...
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Picture a beautiful beach spanning miles of coastline, gently lapped by aqua-colored water _ and sprinkled with glass.Ouch? Think again. It feels just like sand, but with granules that sparkle in t...
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Dozens of walrus carcasses have washed up on beaches this summer, many missing their heads and ivory tusks. While rotting, headless carcasses are not uncommon along beaches in western Alaska in sum...
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Kiev (dpa) - Tons of dead fish in shallow waters and on beaches
were the grounds for a Ukraine Health Ministry ban on swimming in a
summer resort region, Korrespondent magaz...
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After three days of alleged poaching attempts, the carcass of a 30-foot sperm whale was buried on the beach where it washed ashore.The whale turned up dead on the Isla Vista beach over the weekend ...
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Nevil Shute Norway
Critical Essay by Virginia Kirkus' Service
Basquiat on the Beach
