"On the Beach (1959 film) On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, that stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins. This black-and-white film is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. Unlike the novel, no one is assigned blame for starting the war; the film hints that the threat of annihilation may have arisen from an accident or misjudgment. The film is set five years in the future. In early 1964, in the"
"only day-dream about"". ""The Beach"" was made into a film in 2000, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Virginie Ledoyen and Guillaume Canet. The novel was at one point reportedly being considered for adaptation to a television series by ""The Secret Circle"" developer Andrew Miller. The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000,"
"The House on the Beach The House on the Beach: A Realistic Tale is a novella by English novelist George Meredith. It first appeared in print in 1877. A young woman is forced by conscience to become inappropriately engaged to a far older man, who threatens to reveal the secret that her father was previously a deserter. Although the novella wasn't written until the late 1870s, Meredith had started the story 15 years prior. ""The House on the Beach"" was first published in ""New Quarterly"" magazine in January 1877, a magazine in which Meredith also published ""The Case of General"
"The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000, it was adapted into a film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. In a cheap hotel on the Khao San Road in Bangkok, Richard, a young American backpacker, meets a mentally disturbed Scotsman going by the"
"Manhattan Beach (novel) Manhattan Beach is a historical novel by American writer Jennifer Egan. It was published in 2017 by Scribner. The National Book Foundation listed the book in their 2017 National Book Award Longlist in the Fiction category. ""Time"" magazine selected it as one of its top ten novels of 2017. Eleven-going-on-twelve Anna Kerrigan and her father Eddie meet with gangster Dexter Styles in late 1934 at the Styles mansion on the shore of Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn, New York City. Eddie is a former vaudeville performer who switched to become a stockbroker during the Roaring Twenties, then was"
"The Beach (film) The Beach is a 2000 English-language drama thriller film directed by Danny Boyle and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland, which was adapted for the film by John Hodge. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, and Robert Carlyle. It was filmed on the Thai island Koh Phi Phi. Richard, a young American seeking adventure in Bangkok, travels in a drab travelers hotel in Khao San Road where he meets a young French couple, Françoise and Étienne, and he immediately becomes attracted to Françoise. He also meets"
"The House on the Strand The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. First published in the UK in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, with a jacket illustration by her daughter, Flavia Tower, the US edition was published by Doubleday. Like many of du Maurier's novels, ""The House on the Strand"" has a supernatural element, exploring the ability to mentally travel back in time and experience historical events at first hand - but not to influence them. It has been called a Gothic tale, ""influenced by writers as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Dante, and the psychologist"
"Brian Antoni Brian Antoni is the author of the well regarded novel ""South Beach: The Novel"". ""South Beach: The Novel"" is based on Antoni's first hand knowledge of the resurgence of Miami Beach in the past two decades. His writing has also been included in the parody novel Naked Came the Manatee where he wrote one of the chapters. He also writes non fiction articles for travel magazines. Brian Antoni was born in Detroit, Michigan but was raised in Freeport Bahamas. His parents are from Trinidad. His sister is Janine Antoni a well known Bahamian artist. His brother Robert Antoni"
"loading up on a boat from the raft. The Beach (film) The Beach is a 2000 English-language drama thriller film directed by Danny Boyle and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland, which was adapted for the film by John Hodge. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, and Robert Carlyle. It was filmed on the Thai island Koh Phi Phi. Richard, a young American seeking adventure in Bangkok, travels in a drab travelers hotel in Khao San Road where he meets a young French couple, Françoise and Étienne, and he"
"Novels"" with the themes of ""moody gangster noir; sweeping WWII romance; classic New York immigrants’ tale; timeless story of the sea."" In the UK, the ""Guardian"" wrote that ""Manhattan Beach"" was a ""work of remarkable cinematic scope."" Manhattan Beach (novel) Manhattan Beach is a historical novel by American writer Jennifer Egan. It was published in 2017 by Scribner. The National Book Foundation listed the book in their 2017 National Book Award Longlist in the Fiction category. ""Time"" magazine selected it as one of its top ten novels of 2017. Eleven-going-on-twelve Anna Kerrigan and her father Eddie meet with gangster Dexter"
"On Chesil Beach On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novel/novella by British writer Ian McEwan. The novel was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist. ""The Washington Post"" and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley placed ""On Chesil Beach"" on his top ten for 2007, praising McEwan's writing and saying that ""even when he's in a minor mode, as he is here, he is nothing short of amazing"". In July 1962, Edward Mayhew, a graduate student of history, and Florence Ponting, a violinist of a string quartet, have just been married and are spending their honeymoon in a small hotel"
"A Day at the Beach A Day at the Beach is a British 1970 film based on the 1962 book ""Een dagje naar het strand"" by Dutch author Heere Heeresma. The screenplay was written by Roman Polanski, who was originally intended to be the director, although most of the direction was finally done by first-timer Simon Hesera. Set in a rundown Danish seaside resort, it depicts a day in the life of Bernie, a self-destructive alcoholic, as he takes Winnie, a young girl with a leg brace, to the resort despite constant rain. Though Winnie calls Bernie ""uncle,"" he is"
"Ople and Lady Camper"" and ""The Tale of Chloe"", novellas often classified and published with ""The House on the Beach"". In assessing Meredith's approach to the comedic, the character of Tinman dressing himself in his court dress for his own admiration is an example of ""when the control of reason is removed"". The House on the Beach The House on the Beach: A Realistic Tale is a novella by English novelist George Meredith. It first appeared in print in 1877. A young woman is forced by conscience to become inappropriately engaged to a far older man, who threatens to reveal"
"is a well known Caribbean writer. Brian Antoni studied law at Emory University and got his law doctorate at Georgetown University. Although he never practiced as a lawyer he is well known for his published book ""South Beach: The Novel"". Brian Antoni currently lives in Miami Beach, New York City and Key West. Brian Antoni Brian Antoni is the author of the well regarded novel ""South Beach: The Novel"". ""South Beach: The Novel"" is based on Antoni's first hand knowledge of the resurgence of Miami Beach in the past two decades. His writing has also been included in the parody"
"doctor. Nevil Shute's 1957 novel ""On the Beach"" depicts a future just six years later, based on the premise that a nuclear war has released so much radioactive fallout that all life in the Northern Hemisphere has been killed. The novel is set in Australia, which, along with the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, awaits a similar and inevitable fate. Helen Caldicott describes reading the novel in adolescence as 'a formative event' in her becoming part of the anti-nuclear movement. In the former Soviet Union many patients with negligible radioactive exposure after the Chernobyl disaster displayed extreme anxiety about low"
"The Woman on the Beach The Woman on the Beach is a 1947 film noir directed by Jean Renoir, released by RKO Radio Pictures, and starring Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford. The movie is a love triangle drama about Scott, a conflicted U.S. Coast Guard officer (Ryan), and his pursuit of Peggy, a married woman (Bennett). Peggy is married to Tod, a blind artist (Bickford). Scott (Robert Ryan), a mounted Coast Guard officer, suffers from recurring nightmares involving a maritime tragedy. He sees himself immersed in an eerie landscape surrounded by a shipwreck and walking over skeletons at"
"Rex Beach Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877 – December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan, but moved to Tampa, Florida, with his family where his father was growing fruit trees. Beach was educated at Rollins College, Florida (1891–1896), the Chicago College of Law (1896–97), and Kent College of Law, Chicago (1899–1900). In 1900 he was drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His second novel ""The Spoilers"" (1906) was based on a"
"Book Review"" bestseller list for several months. A movie of the same name, based loosely on the novel and starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, was released by United Artists in 1958 (Beach was unhappy with the adaptation). Beach penned two sequels to ""Run Silent, Run Deep"": ""Dust on the Sea"" (1972), relating in detail a war patrol by ""Eel"" leading a wolfpack, and ""Cold is the Sea"" (1978), set in 1961 aboard a nuclear submarine. In addition to ""Submarine!"", Beach wrote several more books on naval history, including ""The Wreck of the Memphis"" (1966); ""United States Navy: 200 Years"""
"of the world's best-selling novelists, although his popularity has since declined in Australia. Between 1956 and 1958 in Australia, he took up car racing as a hobby, driving a white Jaguar XK140. Some of this experience found its way into his book ""On the Beach "". Shute died in Melbourne in 1960 after a stroke. Norway Road and Nevil Shute Road at Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire were both named after him. Shute Avenue in Berwick, Victoria was named after him, when the farm used for filming the 1959 film ""On The Beach"" was subdivided for housing. The public library in Alice"
"Sylvia Beach Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's controversial book, ""Ulysses"" (1922), and encouraged the publication and sold copies of Hemingway's first book, ""Three Stories and Ten Poems"" (1923). Beach was born in her father's parsonage in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, on March 14, 1887, the second of three"
"A Man on the Beach A Man on the Beach (1955) is a British short fiction film. It was directed by Joseph Losey and produced by Anthony Hinds for Hammer Films. Based on a story by Victor Canning (""Chance At the Wheel"") adapted by Jimmy Sangster, his first script, the film stars Donald Wolfit, Michael Medwin and Michael Ripper. An old lady is driven to a Mediterranean casino by a chauffeur (Ripper) in a Rolls Royce. After briefly playing at the tables without success, the lady visits the manager. While toasting her with champagne, the manager is attacked by the"
"comfortable with it (the novel)."" ""The Beach"" has been translated into 25 different languages and sold close to 700,000 copies by the start of 1999. It would later be developed into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In 1998, Garland followed up ""The Beach"" with ""The Tesseract"", a non-linear narrative with several interwoven characters set in Manila, Philippines. The novel is characterized by a post-modernist narrative style and structure. It explores several themes such as love and violence through each character's circumstance and context of surroundings as well as seemingly inconsequential actions and the repercussions of those actions on other characters."
"Tallis in the film adaptation of McEwan's ""Atonement"", would star in ""On Chesil Beach"". On 22 August 2016, Billy Howle was announced to play the role of Edward Mayhew. Dominic Cooke would be making his film directorial debut. The film was released in May 2018. On Chesil Beach On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novel/novella by British writer Ian McEwan. The novel was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist. ""The Washington Post"" and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley placed ""On Chesil Beach"" on his top ten for 2007, praising McEwan's writing and saying that ""even when he's in"
"clever descriptive writing and inventive action—sustains the entertainment mightily"" The Mosquito Coast (novel) The Mosquito Coast is the most successful novel by American author Paul Theroux. Published in 1981 it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year. It was adapted into a 1986 film starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix. Theroux wrote the novel whilst living in London. Although he is rumoured to have based the main character Allie Fox on himself, he denied this in an interview for ""Atlantic Unbound"", saying he based the character on a number"
"it has been run by his daughter Sylvia Beach Whitman, named after Beach. Sylvia Beach Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's controversial book, ""Ulysses"" (1922), and encouraged the publication and sold copies of Hemingway's first book, ""Three Stories and Ten Poems"" (1923). Beach was born in her father's parsonage"
"Female on the Beach Female on the Beach is a 1955 American film noir crime-drama directed by Joseph Pevney starring Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler in a story about a widow and her beach bum lover. The screenplay by Robert Hill and Richard Alan Simmons was based on the play ""The Besieged Heart"" by Robert Hill. The film was directed by Joseph Pevney and produced by Albert Zugsmith. Lynn Markham (Crawford) visits a beach house that once belonged to her dead husband. There, she meets real estate agent Amy Rawlinson (Jan Sterling) and Drummond ""Drummy"" Hall (Chandler), an attractive beach"
"been pointless. ""The New York Times"" called ""On the Beach"" ""the most haunting evocation we have of a world dying of radiation after an atomic war."" ""San Francisco Chronicle""s reviewer called it ""the most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off."" ""Daily Telegraph"" called it ""Shute's most considerable achievement"" and ""The Times"" stated that it is ""the most evocative novel on the aftermath of a nuclear war."" ""The Guardian"" commented that ""fictions such as ""On the Beach"" played an"
"lists, including ""The New York Times"", ""L.A. Times"", ""San Francisco Chronicle"", and ""The Boston Globe"". ""A Day at the Beach"", published in 2008, focuses on a family living through the September 11 attacks and the aftermath. ""The New Yorker"" wrote, “Schulman, in her fourth novel, gets both her cultural moment and the psychological particulars of a disintegrating marriage exactly right, and her writing is distractingly, almost brazenly beautiful. The result slyly demonstrates both the inadequacy of art and its insolent resilience in disaster’s aftermath.” Schulman’s fiction, non-fiction, and reviews have appeared in such places as ""Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue, GQ,"
"Alex Garland Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. He rose to prominence as a novelist in the late 1990s with his novel ""The Beach"", which led some critics to call Garland a key voice of Generation X. He subsequently received praise for the screenplays of the films ""28 Days Later"" (2002), ""Sunshine"" (2007), ""Never Let Me Go"" (2010) and ""Dredd"" (2012). In 2014, Garland made his directorial debut with ""Ex Machina"", a science fiction thriller which explores the relationship between mankind and artificial intelligence; the film earned him an Academy"
"construction company, Airspeed Ltd. His popularity grew slowly with each novel, but he became much more famous after the publication of ""On the Beach"" in 1957. Shute's novels are written in a simple, highly readable style, with clearly delineated plot lines. Where there is a romantic element, sex is referred to only obliquely. Many of the stories are introduced by a narrator who is not a character in the story. The most common theme in Shute's novels is the dignity of work, spanning all classes, whether an Eastern European bar ""hostess"" (""Ruined City"") or brilliant boffin (""No Highway""). Another recurrent"
"On the Edge (Hinton novel) On the Edge is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton and was first published in 2014. It follows the story of two boys whose mentally unstable father, who is an ex serviceman, takes them on holiday but suspicions arise. Fifteen-year-old Dillon and his ten-year-old brother Robbie were home alone when Robbie received a telephone call from their father who they had not seen for two years after he beat up Dillon and his mother. Their father said he wanted to take them on holiday saying that their mother said it was OK despite his"
"On the Water (novel) On the Water is a 1998 novel by Dutch author Hans Maarten van den Brink. It recounts an unlikely sporting partnership which is shattered by the advent of World War II. The central roles are those of Anton and David, a rowing crew from opposite sides of Amsterdam society, and Doktor Schneiderhahn, the enigmatic German rowing coach who brings them together. The novel will be made into a film by Dutch production company Dynamic Entertainment by the same team that adapted Philip Pullman's The Butterfly Tattoo. ""On the Water"" is an intensely told tale of adolescent"
"Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and taught pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 1978. Caldicott's interest in the dangers of nuclear energy was sparked when she read the 1957 Nevil Shute novel ""On the Beach"", about a nuclear holocaust set in Australia. In the 1970s, she rose to prominence as a public figure in Australia and subsequently New Zealand and North America, speaking on the health hazards of radiation from her professional perspective as a pediatrician. Her early achievements included convincing Australia to sue France over its atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific"