by Nevil Shute · Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582537750
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«On the Beach» is the graded reader of the novel by Nevil Shute, published by Longman in paperback (123 pages, in English).
After a nuclear war, a radioactive cloud spreads southward and the survivors in Australia await the end. A submarine captain, tormented by the memory of his wife, grows close to a young woman struggling to accept the situation. Upon picking up a Morse signal from the United States, he sets sail toward a desolate ocean in search of life.
1972 edition in the Longman Structural Readers series, level 5; simplified reading for learning English.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language at intermediate levels.
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.
