by Nevil Shute · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582419223
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«On the Beach» is the science fiction novel by Nevil Shute, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (128 pages, in English).
After a nuclear war, deadly radiation advances from the north towards the south. In Melbourne (Australia), the last survivors, such as Peter and Mary Holmes with their baby, try to maintain a normal life as death approaches. The novel shows how they, their friends and neighbours face the end with dignity and love.
Graded reader from the Penguin Readers series, level 4, adapted by G. C. Thornley from the original novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1957.
Suitable for students of English as a foreign language and for young people with limited reading skills, thanks to its graded vocabulary.
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.
