by Nevil Shute · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582275256
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«On the Beach» is the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Nevil Shute, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (48 pages, in English).
After a nuclear war devastates the planet, the few survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud approaching from the north. An American submarine captain faces imminent death when a signal in Morse code is detected from Seattle, a last chance to find signs of life.
This simplified edition is by G. C. Thornley and belongs to the Penguin ELT Readers series, level 4 (intermediate). The original text was first published in 1957.
It is aimed at upper-intermediate English students, including those preparing for exams such as the Cambridge First Certificate.
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.
