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ON THE BEACH - NEVIL SHUTE KARTONIERT (TB)

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).

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