Born in ealing, he went to shrewsbury school and balliol college. He used his full name in his engineering career and nevil shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers vickers or fellow engineers that he was not a serious person or from potential negative publicity in. Nevil shute best describes this autobiography in his own words. Download nevil shute 20 books epub, mobi torrent or any other torrent from other ebooks direct download via magnet link. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume. The book is the basis of the film available as a download from amazon starring james stewart and marlene dietrich with glynis johns. Nevil shute writes every character with quiet kindness and intelligence. Shute s works are always written in an easily readable style that appealed to all classes of readers. Nevil shute norway 17 january 1899 12 january 1960 was an english novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in australia. Engineer, aviator, author and model engineer by allan j bester few people may be aware of the multifaceted life of nevil s norway, better known as nevil shute, a popular novelist of the latter half of the last century. Slide rule ebook by nevil shute norway 9781409087458.
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Many of the stories are introduced by a narrator who is not a character in the story. Slide rule is an autobiography, but the part that almost everyone will buy it for is the account of the building of the r100 airship in competition with the r101. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading slide rule vintage international. Nevil shute norway born on 17 january 1899 in ealing, a suburb to the west of london, nevil shute. Nevil shute was a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling n. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Nevil shute 20 books epub, mobi download torrent tpb. Shutes works are always written in an easily readable style that appealed to all classes of readers. Nevil shute, slide rule an autobiography of an engineer, physics. But we can learn how to love betteroften from those we would never expect to teach us.
The autobiography of an engineer reprint by shute, nevil isbn. Slide rule concentrates on nevil shutes work in aviation, ending in 1938 when he left the industry the book begins with details of shutes childhood and upbringing, his school years, events in the easter 1916 dublin rising, where his father was secretary. The parallels between shutes life and his fiction can be seen. His novels are written in a simple, highly readable style, with clearly delineated plot lines. Initially published in 1928, this is one of the earlier pieces from nevil shute as a writer, offering a glimpse into where hes come from and how hes progressed as an author. Slide rule nevil shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. The author of 24 published novels and novellas, his bestknown books include pied piper, a town like alice, and especially on the beach, set in a fictional postatomicwar australia. You will read a town like alice and fall in love with shutes writing. Setting up and establishing a lot of his themes, it provides the ideal entry point into his writing, as. His other works include lonely road 1932, ruined city 1938, pied piper 1942, most secret 1945, no highway 1948, round the bend 1951, in the wet 1953, beyond the black. Nevil shutes autobiographical work charts his selected remembrances from childhood to 1938. Read the far country by nevil shute for free with a 30 day free trial. Slide rule was published in 1954 and represented nevil shute s selected remembrances from childhood to 1938. These were the largest of their generation, vastly larger than the a380 and 747 jets of today.