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On the Beach by Nevil Shute | |
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On the Beach Lesson Plan
34,897 words, approx. 116 pages
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On the Beach Information
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 On the Beach may refer to: On the Beach (novel), a novel by Nevil Shute On the Beach (1959 film), a 1959 film based on the novel On the Beach (2000 film), a 2000 television film based on the novel On the Beach (album), an album by Neil Young On the...




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 The New York Observer
Basquiat on the Beach
3/27/2005: 1,105 words, approx. 4 pages 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 in Rockland County, spent weekends at his grandparents in Brooklyn—but had lived for...
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Boy bitten by dog on beach awarded $856K
10/14/2007: 306 words, approx. 1 pages 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 old and weighed 24 pounds when he was bitten on...
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Animals and owners find refuge on beach
10/26/2007: 328 words, approx. 1 pages 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 Mission Bay became an animal refuge after wildfires broke out last...
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Q: How can I protect gadgets on beach?
5/23/2007: 486 words, approx. 2 pages 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 with most of your portable electronics...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David Martin
2,349 words, approx. 8 pages
 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 then I secretly believed that such a world catastrophe could never happen. Mankind was too rational to destroy itself. Like many others, this did not prevent me from being active against war, but always with a certain emotional reservation, founded mainly on historical and political optimism. Nevil Shute's book, while not demolishing t...
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Critical Essay by Julian Smith
1,921 words, approx. 6 pages
 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 hemisphere would be held above the equator by the trade winds. Shute's first intention seems to have been to write a kind of modern Swiss Family Robinson about the continuation of civilization in Australia…. The idea for the book "started as a joke," Shute told a friend. "Now that I was living in Australia I kidded ...
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Critical Essay by Carlton W. Berenda
670 words, approx. 2 pages
 [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, Shute carries the reader to the radioactive death of man, after a third world war. The story and its motion picture are by now well known to many of us. And we have all shared in the pain-filled pages of the novel. It is what lies beyond or beneath the obviously depressing portrayal that makes this work something more than a story well told. When ...


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On the Beach by Nevil Shute | |
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About 130 pages (38,910 words) in 13 products |
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