![]() ![]() The most common theme in Shute's novels is the dignity of work, spanning all classes, whether a Spanish bar hostess in the Balkans (Ruined City) or brilliant boffin (No Highway). Many of the stories are introduced by a narrator who is not a character in the story. ![]() Where there is a romantic element, sex is referred to only obliquely. ![]() Shute's novels are written in a simple, highly readable style, with clearly delineated plot lines. Sales of his books grew slowly with each novel, but he became much better known after the publication of his third to last book, On the Beach, in 1957. After that he averaged one novel every two years through the 1950s, with the exception of a six-year hiatus while he was establishing his own aircraft construction company, Airspeed Ltd. His first published novel was Marazan, which came out in 1926. Shute's first novel, Stephen Morris, was written in 1923, but not published until 1961 (with its 1924 sequel, Pilotage). ![]()
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