In The Wet
  • De Nevil Shute
  • Editora: Reading Essentials

Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and...

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The Far Country
  • De Nevil Shute
  • Editora: Reading Essentials

Jennifer fled the drab monotony of post-war London. When she landed in Australia, it was like coming home. She loved it and when she met Carl, she had every reason to stay. But...

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Pastoral
  • De Nevil Shute
  • Editora: Reading Essentials

This is a pastoral idyll of a bomber base! The bomber crew who are the central characters are ardent, though rather amateurish, fishermen, from the pilot captain down. Their...

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An Old Captivity
  • De Nevil Shute
  • Editora: Reading Essentials

An Old Captivity - about a young airman, an Oxford don, and his beautiful daughter who, on an expedition to the Arctic, are transported by explorers of another age - the Norsemen...

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Stephen Morris
  • De Nevil Shute
  • Editora: Reading Essentials

These two linked novels have flying as a shared theme. In Stephen Morris we see the eponymous hero leaving Oxford University unable to marry his girl because of a lack of...

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What Happened To The Corbetts
  • De Nevil Shute
  • Editora: Reading Essentials

Set in 1938, this novel tells the story of the Corbetts, a family preparing for the coming war. As the world begins to collapse around them, Peter Corbett, a local lawyer, his...

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Round The Bend
  • De Nevil Shute
  • Editora: Reading Essentials

Tom Cutter is in love with airplanes and has been from his boyhood. He can remain in England, an employee in another man's aviation business, or he can set out on his...

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Lonely Road
  • De Nevil Shute
  • Editora: Reading Essentials

A rich middle-aged man finds his lonely life turned upside down when he falls in love with a pretty dance hostess and becomes involved in exposing a conspiracy to sabotage the...

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The Chequer Board
  • De Nevil Shute
  • Editora: Reading Essentials

A young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during the war: a...

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