Usually, like himself, they had enjoyed the privilege of university, not then within the purview of the lower classes. His heroes tended to be middle class: solicitors, doctors, accountants, bank managers, engineers. Shute lived a comfortable middle-class English life. The Australian novels are individual hymns to that country, with subtle disparagement of the mores of the USA (Beyond the Black Stump) and overt antipathy towards the post-World War II socialist government of Shute's native Britain (The Far Country and In the Wet). The most common theme in Shute's novels is the dignity of work, spanning all classes, whether an Eastern European bar 'hostess' (Ruined City) or brilliant boffin (No Highway).Īnother recurrent theme is the bridging of social barriers such as class (Lonely Road and Landfall), race (The Chequer Board) or religion (Round the Bend).

Many of the stories are introduced by a narrator who is not a character in the story. Where there is a romantic element, sex is referred to only obliquely. Shute's novels are written in a simple, highly readable style, with clearly delineated plot lines. Throughout the story, people judge him by that appearance, or by his varied and unconventional outside interests, such as pyramidology, the study of possible esoteric interpretations of the Pyramids.-Wikipedia. Honey is unimpressive in appearance and is so intensely focused on his work that his relations with the outside world - never that good to begin with - suffer badly. The events are narrated by Scott in the first person. Honey, a widower, in addition to his work, must bring up his young daughter, Elspeth.

Dennis Scott, is to investigate possible failure in the high aspect ratio tailplane of a new airliner, the fictional Rutland Reindeer. The anti-hero of the story, Theodore Honey, is engaged in research on the fatigue of aluminium airframes. Norway, Nevil Shute Writing under the pseudonym: Shute, NevilĪdventure, airplanes, Canada, England, fiction, mystery, suspense, film/TV adaptation This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Nevil Shute (1899-1960)

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