On The Beach von Shute, Nevil

Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must...

Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. von Shute, Nevil

Eine Stadt wie Alice

They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as they know it winds toward an...

"DAS LETZTE UFER" ist ein Science-Fiction-Roman des Autors Nevil Shute. Die Geschichte spielt in einer postapokalyptischen Welt, die nach einem verheerenden nuklearen Krieg von Strahlung verseucht ist. Der Roman folgt den Überlebenden in...

"On the Beach" von Nevil Shute ist ein postapokalyptischer Roman, der in Australien nach einem verheerenden Atomkrieg spielt. Die Geschichte folgt einer Gruppe von Überlebenden, darunter der amerikanische U-Boot-Kommandant Dwight Towers...

"Requiem for a Wren" (deutsch: "Requiem für eine Gefährtin") ist ein Roman des britisch-australischen Autors Nevil Shute, der erstmals 1955 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte dreht sich um Alan Duncan, einen australischen...

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...

'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable' Guardian Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion...

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