Nevil Shute
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 246 pages Rating: 4.2 | 3141 Users | 335 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Pied Piper |
| ISBN: | 0345017331 (ISBN13: 9780345017338) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) Jura,1940(France) Dijon,1940(France) …more Joigny,1940(France) Montargis,1940(France) Angerville,1940(France) Chartres,1940(France) Rennes,1940(France) Landerneau,1940(France) …less |
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It is the summer of 1940 and in Europe the time of Blitzkrieg. John Howard, a 70-year-old Englishman vacationing in France, cuts shorts his tour and heads for home. He agrees to take two children with him.But war closes in. Trains fail, roads clog with refugees. And if things were not difficult enough, other children join in Howard's little band. At last they reach the coast and find not deliverance but desperation. The old Englishman's greatest test lies ahead of him.
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| Title | : | Pied Piper |
| Author | : | Nevil Shute |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 246 pages |
| Published | : | (first published 1942) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Classics. World War II. Cultural. France |
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Ratings: 4.2 From 3141 Users | 335 ReviewsDiscuss Appertaining To Books Pied Piper
Nevil Shute never disappoints me, not being a present day writer.....his novels have a timeless quality to them. A very heartfelt story of an old man mourning the loss of his son in World War II, tries to come to terms with his grief.....in the process meets up with 6 children at various times in war-torn France & endeavors to bring them to safety in England, his home country. It's a wonderful read.....highly reccomend it!Great story - really enjoyed it.
Pied Piper, Nevil ShutePied Piper is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1942. The title is a reference to the traditional German folk tale, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". The story concerns an elderly Englishman, John Sidney Howard, who goes on a fishing holiday in France after the outbreak of the Second World War, but before the fall of France. Entrusted with the care of two English children, and overtaken by events, he attempts to return to England and safety. His journey is hampered by
Written in Nevil Shute's unemotional style, this book is a really engaging and moving tale of an elderly gentleman's journey across war time France to rescue himself, and a group of children that he has accumulated.I love Nevil Shute detached, evocative style of writing, it brings so much to the stories that he has written, and in a way makes them extremely emotional.I do wish more people would read his novels, I have not read one that I haven't enjoyed.
Probably a 4.5. Another typically good effort from Nevil Shute. He loves to bring us the stories of common people that are placed in uncommon or dangerous circumstances and it is very natural and easy to root for that person. Here we have an elderly British gentleman who decides to go to the French/Swiss border to fish just prior to the outbreak of WW2. While there the war breaks out and he tries to return to England. He is placed on charge of 2 children, which eventually goes to 3, then 4 &
Page-turner of a WWII story about an older Englishman trying to navigate an assortment of children through German-occupied France. The book reminded me of the first half of A Town Like Alice and, despite its unruffled tone, I couldn't put it down and came within seconds of missing my subway stop while reading it Monday night. The ending is pure old-fashioned melodrama and there is one ridiculously stereotypical comment about Jewish people. But, as the book blurb says, Shute was a master
enjoyed revisiting this author after so many years and still hasn't lost its charm of the storyline and emotions which come in this novel based around the time of the German invasion of France in 1940 and an old mans attempt to travel back to England with several children at the time of France imploding.
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