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Ebook File Details: Original title: On the Beach 320 pages Publisher: Vintage; 1 edition (2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307473996 ISBN-13: 978-0307473998 Product Dimensions:5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches File Format: PDF File Size: 11159 kB Description: Nevil Shute’s most powerful novel—a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication—is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world.After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its... Review: This copy (produced by Amazon LLC) is not in fact the actual book by Nevil Shute, but a poor abridgement of it. It clocked in at 207 pages, 23 lines per page, versus 320 pages at 33 lines per page in my 1957 edition. It reads like the book condensed for English language learners. First line, second paragraph, has gone from He woke happy, and it... 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