The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing
by Pierson, Melissa Holbrook
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 039307904X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393079043
- Seller
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Morrinsville, New Zealand
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Synopsis
NEVIL SHUTE NORWAY was born on January 17, 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 January 12, 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
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- Seller
- Samwise Books (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 012666
- Title
- The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing
- Author
- Pierson, Melissa Holbrook
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 039307904X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393079043
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- This edition first published
- 2011-10
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