Beschreibung
Nevil Shute was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan , in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
| EAN: | 9780099530251 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 03.09.2009 |
| Beilage: | B-format paperback |
| Titel der Reihe: | Vintage Classics## |
| Autoren: | Shute, Nevil |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 312 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Classics |
| Keyword: | love; survival; australia; submarine; america; sea; family; wife; a town like alice; classic books; classic; best books of all time; books fiction; classic book; classic literature; novels; good books; fiction books; classic novels; classics; classics books; fiction; military; thriller; western; wwii; aviation; action; thrillers; westerns; ww2; military fiction; vietnam war; vietnam; action adventure; espionage; sailing; science fiction; military history; world war 2; crime fiction; civil war; thriller books; spy; literary fiction; cold war; journalism; world war two; asia; naval; sci-fi |
| Fachschema: | Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Klassische Lyrik, Lyrik bis 1900 |
| Länge: | 199 mm |
| Breite: | 128 mm |
| Höhe: | 25 mm |
| Gewicht: | 230 gr |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Genre: | Importe |
