On the Beach

Nevil Shute

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Dempsey, David. "Amid Evil, Good Endures." The New York Times Book Review April 3, 1960: 4.

Erisman, Fred. "The Technological Utopias of Thorstein Veblen and Nevil Shute." Weber Studies 11.2 (Spring-Summer 1994).

Martin, David. "The Mind that Conceived On the Beach." Meanjin 19.2 (June 1960): 193–200.

Smith, Julian. Nevil Shute. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976.

———. "On the Beach at Amchitka: The Conversion of Nevil Shute." The South Atlantic Quarterly 72.1 (Winter 1973).

Winterich, John T. "Doomed People." The Saturday Review 40.30 (July 27, 1957): 12.

The Nevil Shute Foundation Homepage. http://www.nevilshute.org

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