OldCaptivity.net

A research project on the author Nevil Shute.

My thesis is that his novels can and should be read together as one larger work of Moral and Political Philosophy.

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Most of Shute’s works are in the public domain, apart from some private letters and other items in collections.
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Nevil Shute’s Works

This is where I keep a full list of everything Shute wrote in his life, that I can possibly get my hands on. I use this numbering system for my research, so that each item is as distinct as can be.

I have found it useful to read and download free (and copyright-free) electronic versions of his books at both Project Gutenberg Canada as well as Faded Page.

Published Novels:

  1. Stephen Morris/Pilotage*
  2. Marazan
  3. So Disdained
  4. Lonely Road
  5. Ruined City
  6. What happened to the Corbetts
  7. An Old Captivity

    War/Post-war Novels:
  8. Landfall
  9. Pied Piper
  10. Pastoral*
  11. Most Secret*
  12. The Chequer Board
  13. No Highway

    Australia Period:
  14. A Town Like Alice
  15. Round The Bend
  16. The Far Country
  17. In The Wet
  18. Slide Rule
  19. Requiem for a Wren
  20. Beyond the Black Stump
  21. On the Beach
  22. The Rainbow and the Rose
  23. Trustee from the Toolroom

    Unpublished/Miscellaneous:
  24. The Seafarers
  25. Vinland the Good
  26. Flight Log
  27. Incident at Eucla
  28. Other unpublished stories.
  29. .
  30. .
  31. .
  32. .
  33.  And so on.



*Stephen Morris is noted first in the list because despite not being initially published it does in fact plainly constitute his first uncertain entry into his lifelong work on Moral and Political Philosophy.

*I am fully aware of the discrepancy of placing Pastoral ahead of Most Secret – to my mind the order of these two is completely irrelevant given their contents and message are largely identical and putting one ahead of the other does not meaningfully alter the “story” of the author’s lifelong development.