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So Disdained
Nevil Shute
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Description for So Disdained
Paperback. When Peter Moran picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night on the South Downs, he embarks upon an adventure that will lead him into treasonous international plots, flying adventures and tests of both his bravery and his loyalty. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
When Peter Moran picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night on the South Downs, he embarks upon an adventure that will lead him into treasonous international plots, flying adventures and tests of both his bravery and his loyalty.
When Peter Moran picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night on the South Downs, he embarks upon an adventure that will lead him into treasonous international plots, flying adventures and tests of both his bravery and his loyalty.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099530183
SKU
V9780099530183
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About Nevil Shute
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).
Reviews for So Disdained
Any book by Nevil Shute is a delight
Punch
That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is masterly
H.E. Bates There is a quality of golden light that hangs over his books. That comes, I think, from his sense of order and from his own vast, undemonstrative solicitude
John Ezard
Guardian
Punch
That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is masterly
H.E. Bates There is a quality of golden light that hangs over his books. That comes, I think, from his sense of order and from his own vast, undemonstrative solicitude
John Ezard
Guardian