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    A Study Guide for Nevil Shute Norway's "On the Beach"
    A Study Guide for Nevil Shute Norway's "On the Beach"
    A Study Guide for Nevil Shute Norway's "On the Beach"
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    A Study Guide for Nevil Shute Norway's "On the Beach"

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    A Study Guide for Nevil Shute Norway's "On the Beach," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535830096
    A Study Guide for Nevil Shute Norway's "On the Beach"

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      A Study Guide for Nevil Shute Norway's "On the Beach" - Gale

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      On the Beach

      Nevil Shute

      1957

      Introduction

      The antiwar novel has a grand literary tradition. Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (1939), and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead (1948) are prime examples of novels that realistically portray the madness and brutality of war. While Nevil Shute's On the Beach is not as well-known as these other novels, it carries a powerful message about the dangers of nuclear warfare.

      In his novel, Shute focuses on a group of ordinary people who wait for the inevitable radioactive fall-out of a devastating nuclear war to arrive in Melbourne, Australia. Many critics hailed the book as an insightful and humane cautionary fable. On the Beach continues to sell well for a forty-year-old novel, which suggests that the moral of the story remains relevant today.

      Author Biography

      Born Nevil Shute Norway, Shute was born on January 17, 1899, in a suburb of London, England. His father, Arthur Hamilton Norway, was the assistant secretary of the General Post Office in London. In 1912 his father was appointed head of the post office in Ireland. After moving to Dublin, Shute was sent to the Shrewsbury School in Oxford; in the summer, he stayed with his family in the countryside near Dublin.

      In 1915, Shute's only brother, nineteen-year-old Fred, died in France during World War I. A short time later, Shute served as a stretcher-bearer during the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Ireland. During the fighting, Irish rebels occupied and burned his father's post office. He entered the Royal Military Academy and trained for several months to become a gunnery officer for the Royal Flying Corps, but a childhood stammer prevented him from getting a commission. Desperate to fight for England, he enlisted in the infantry, but the war ended before he saw any combat.

      After graduating from Oxford in 1923, he worked at the de Havilland Aircraft Company. At this time he wrote his first novel, Stephen Morris, which wasn't published until after his death. His first published novel was Marazan, which appeared in 1926.

      He eventually left de Havilland's to work on the R-100 airship project. The R-100 was one-half of a two-airship project commissioned by the government. Although the R-100 flew a successful round-trip to Canada, the government version of the aircraft—known as the R-101—was poorly designed and crashed in an accident over France during its first flight. The project was canceled, and Shute went

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