by Nevil Shute · Max Hueber Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783190002399
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«On the Beach» is the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Nevil Shute, published by Max Hueber Verlag in paperback (104 pages, in English).
Melbourne, after a nuclear war that has devastated the northern hemisphere. Peter and Mary Holmes and their young daughter try to maintain a normal life while radioactive rain advances southward. Friends and neighbors share the same concern: how to live the remaining days without giving in to despair.
This 1992 edition is presented as teaching material (Lernmaterialien) for reading in English.
It can serve as supplementary reading for English students and for those seeking an edition with pedagogical support.
Nevil Shute Norway was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. 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 from fellow engineers that he was "not a serious person" or from potentially adverse publicity in connection with his novels, which included On the Beach and A Town Like Alice.
