- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Literature, Reading Level-Grade 11
Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Nevil Shute
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 310
- Publisher
- Mandarin, The Reprint Society, Published jointly by Wm. Heinemann and Secker and Warburg
- Editions
- 119
- Language
- und, English, Spanish, German
- ISBN
- 9780330020701
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“JAMES MACFADDEN died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point to Point.”
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