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A surname, a variant of Neville
A male given name transferred from the surname

İlgili Terimler

Nevil Shute
a British writer who went to live in Australia, and whose best-known novels are A Town Like Alice and On the Beach (1899-1960). orig. Nevil Shute Norway born Jan. 17, 1899, Ealing, Middlesex, Eng. died Jan. 12, 1960, Melbourne, Vic., Australia English-born Australian novelist. Trained as an aeronautical engineer, Shute drew on technical detail in his fiction. His early works include So Disdained (1928) and What Happened to the Corbetts (1939), a foretaste of the bombing of civilians in World War II. After the war he settled in Australia, where he set his later novels. Reflecting a growing despair about the future of humanity, they include A Town Like Alice (1950; film, 1956) and his best-known work, On The Beach (1957; film, 1959), a vivid picture of the nuclear annihilation of the human race
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