The Timeless Nevil Shute

The Timeless Nevil Shute

Fall (9 - 13 hours) | This course is completed

67 Cummings Road Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Chalmers

Repeat Course

10/1/2019-10/29/2019

2:00 PM-4:00 PM EDT on Tue

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$60.00

Nevil Shute was a worldwide best-selling novelist in the 1930s, ‘40s, ‘50s and early ‘60s. Many of his novels are as relevant today as when originally published. Mr. Shute had the uncanny ability to write about events that had yet to occur. We will be reading, discussing and analyzing some of his most timeless novels.

There is an optional reading packet.

  • Optional Texts:
  • • Round the Bend - Nevil Shute (any edition)
  • • What Happened to the Corbetts - Nevil Shute (any edition)
  • • On the Beach - Nevil Shute (any edition)
  • • Chequer Board - Nevil Shute (any edition)
  • • The Far Country - Nevil Shute (any edition)
  • • Trustee from the Tool Room - Nevil Shute (any edition)
  • • No Highway - Nevil Shute (any edition)

Laura discovered Nevil Shute in 1981 and has not looked back. Laura was a classroom teacher for 15 years and introduced Shute to her elementary and middle school students. The moral, legal and ethical dilemmas raised in Shute’s novels produced lively, passionate, and well-thought out discussions. Laura co-founded the Dartmouth Chapter of the Nevil Shute Society and is Vice President of the Nevil Shute Norway Foundation.