Bild på författaren.

Nevil Shute (1899–1960)

Författare till På stranden

53+ verk 18,336 medlemmar 645 recensioner 73 favoritmärkta

Om författaren

Nevil Shute Norway was born in Ealing, London, England, on January, 17 1899. At the age of 11, Norway played truant from his first preparatory school in Hammersmith. After he was discovered, he was sent to the Dragon School, Oxford, and from there to Shrewsbury. He was on holiday in Dublin at the visa mer time of the Easter rising of 1916 and acted as an ambulance driver, winning a commendation for gallant conduct. He then entered the Royal Military Academy, intending to be commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps, but a bad stammer led to his being failed at his final medical examination and returned to civil life. The last few months of the war were spent on home service as a private in the Suffolk Regiment. In 1919, Norway went to Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a third class honors course in engineering science in 1922. During the vacations he worked, unpaid, as an aeronautical engineer, for the Aircraft Manufacturing Company at Hendon, and then for Geoffrey de Havilland's own firm, which he joined as an employee upon finishing at Oxford. He learned to fly and gained experience as a test observer. During the evenings he diligently wrote novels and short stories unperturbed by rejection slips from publishers. In 1924 Norway took the post of Chief Calculator to the Airship Guarantee Company, to work on the construction of the R100. In 1929 he became Deputy Chief Engineer under Barnes Wallis, and in the following year he flew to and from Canada in the R100. After the end of the airship project, jobs were hard to come by due to the depression so Shute started an aircraft manufacturing company, Airspeed Limited. This company was ultimately successful and built a large number of aircraft during the war. Shute remained joint managing director until 1938. When the business became too routine, he decided to get out of the rut and live by writing. The de Havillands, the first aviation job Shute had ever had, wound up buying Airspeed Ltd. He had by then enjoyed some success as a novelist and had sold the film rights of Lonely Road and Ruined City. At the outbreak of war in 1939, Norway joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Miscellaneous Weapons Department. Rising to Lieutenant Commander, he found experimenting with secret weapons a job after his own heart. But he found that his growing celebrity as a writer caused him to be in the Normandy landings on 6th June 1944, for the Ministry of Information, and to be sent to Burma as a correspondent in 1945. He entered Rangoon with the 15th Corps from Arakan. Soon after demobilisation in 1945 he emigrated to Australia and made his home in Langwarrin, Victoria. His output of novels, which began with Marazan (1926) continued to the end. Shute was one of the leading aeronautical engineers in Britain during the 30's and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. When he began writing in the 20's, he feared that a reputation as a writer of fiction might harm his engineering career. For this reason he published under his two Christian names, Nevil Shute and engineered under his "real" name, Nevil S. Norway. Nevil Shute Norway died in Melbourne on January, 12 1960. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Verk av Nevil Shute

På stranden (1957) 4,855 exemplar
Fem svarta höns (1950) 3,718 exemplar
Förmyndaren (1960) 890 exemplar
Mannen med sälgpiporna (1942) 877 exemplar
Utan återvändo (1948) 589 exemplar
Pastoral (1944) 581 exemplar
Lyckans land (1952) 576 exemplar
The Chequer Board (1947) 547 exemplar
Till minnet av Janet (1955) 540 exemplar
Där vägen slutar (1951) 495 exemplar
Livets väv (1953) 445 exemplar
Under norrskenet (1940) 443 exemplar
Hemligt uppdrag (1945) 428 exemplar
Regnbågen och rosen (1958) 390 exemplar
Mitt liv (1954) 357 exemplar
Vi flyger i dag, Mona! (1940) 334 exemplar
Skilda världar (1956) 325 exemplar
Tills vi ses igen (1939) 313 exemplar
Staden som vaknade (1938) 298 exemplar
Så länge vingarna bär (1928) 276 exemplar
Möte vid Marazan (1926) 268 exemplar
Mörk horisont (1932) 253 exemplar
Flygande start (1961) 190 exemplar
On the Beach (abridged) (1972) 70 exemplar
Vinland the Good (1946) 37 exemplar
The Seafarers (2002) 14 exemplar
Ruined City / Landfall (1968) 10 exemplar
A Town Like Alice 4 exemplar
See List 2 exemplar
Formynderen 2 (1988) 1 exemplar
Formynderen 1 1 exemplar
A Town Like Alice [abridged] (1992) — Författare — 1 exemplar
Most Secret AND The Legacy (1966) 1 exemplar
Förmyndaren 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Secret Weapons of World War II (1956) — Förord, vissa utgåvor80 exemplar
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 76 exemplar
Once is enough (1959) — Förord, vissa utgåvor67 exemplar
On the Beach [1959 film] (1959) — Original book — 45 exemplar
A Town like Alice [1981 TV mini series] (1958) — Original novel — 42 exemplar
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1976 v01 (1976) — Bidragsgivare — 31 exemplar
Great World War II Stories: 50th Anniversary Collection (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
A Town Like Alice [1956 film] (1956) — Original book — 24 exemplar
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1960 v03 (1960) — Författare — 20 exemplar
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1959 v01 (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
On the Beach [2000 film] — Original book — 9 exemplar
The Far Country [1987 miniseries] (1987) — Original book — 4 exemplar
Pied Piper [1942 film] — Original book — 2 exemplar

Taggad

Allmänna fakta

Medlemmar

Diskussioner

Recensioner

En av Nevil Shutes mindre kända klassiker men den är riktigt bra. Nevil Shute var en av de författare som alla skulle läsa i skolan. Då begrep jag inte storheten men det gör jag nu. Det är en kärlekshistoria under andra världskriget men det är också en ren historiebeskrivning. Oerhört kraftfullt skrivet av en mästare. Det är fascinerande, spännande och sorligt. Läs!!
 
Flaggad
Mats_Sigfridsson | 20 andra recensioner | Sep 1, 2015 |

Listor

1960s (1)
1950s (2)

Priser

Du skulle kanske också gilla

Associerade författare

Statistik

Verk
53
Även av
29
Medlemmar
18,336
Popularitet
#1,196
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
645
ISBN
774
Språk
20
Favoritmärkt
73

Tabeller & diagram