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Pied Piper

BookPaperback
Ranking44284inBelletristik
CHF16.90

Description

Nevil Shute's classic Second World War novel is an uplifting, satisfying and moving story. John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-953022-0
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
FormatB-format paperback
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date03/09/2009
Pages320 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 198 mm, Thickness 19 mm
Weight223 g
Article no.6541082
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.4858650
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

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).