Marazan

1926 novel by Nevil Shute

Marazan

First edition

Author| Nevil Shute
Language| English
Genre| Thriller novel
Publisher| Cassell

Publication date

| 1926
Publication place| England
Media type| Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Marazan is the first published novel by the British author Nevil Shute. It was originally published in 1926 by Cassell & Co, then republished in 1951 by William Heinemann. The events of the novel occur, in part, around the Isles of Scilly.

## Plot summary

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Philip Stenning is a commercial pilot, trained during the First World War. After his engine fails, he crashes and is rescued by an escaped convict, Denis Compton, who turns out to have been framed for embezzlement by his Italian half-brother, Baron Rodrigo Mattani, who is smuggling drugs into England.[1]

The story tells how Stenning plays a key role in breaking that drug ring. It involves episodes characteristic of Shute: flying, small boat sailing, and a love story.

Stenning was a major character in Shute's first (unpublished at the time ) novel Stephen Morris. Stenning also crops up as a comparatively minor character in Shute's next two novels So Disdained (1928) and Lonely Road (1932).

## Author's later reflections

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In his autobiography Slide Rule, Shute recalls writing the book twice over and rewriting large portions a third time. He wrote as a relaxation from his regular work of designing air ships.[2]

His first two unpublished novels (Stephen Morris and Pilotage) were typed on an old Blick portable typewriter: he said it may not be quite a coincidence that my first published novel Marazan was the first that I wrote on a brand new typewriter bought out of my earnings as an engineer.[3]

## See also

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* Isles of Scilly

## References

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1. ^ Nevil Shute Foundation: Marazan, accessed 30 January 2011.
2. ^ Shute, Nevil (1954), Slide rule : the autobiography of an engineer, Heinemann, pp. 42, 49, retrieved 30 October 2016
3. ^ Shute, Nevil (1954), Slide rule : the autobiography of an engineer, Heinemann, p. 49, retrieved 30 October 2016

## External links

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* Marazan at Faded Page (Canada)

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Books by Nevil Shute

* Stephen Morris and Pilotage (1923)
* Marazan (1926)
* So Disdained (1928)
* Lonely Road (1932)
* Ruined City (1938)
* What Happened to the Corbetts (1939)
* An Old Captivity (1940)
* Landfall: A Channel Story (1940)
* Pied Piper (1942)
* Most Secret (1945)
* Pastoral (1944)
* Vinland the Good (1946)
* The Chequer Board (1947)
* No Highway (1948)
* A Town Like Alice (1950)
* Round the Bend (1951)
* The Far Country (1952)
* In the Wet (1953)
* Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer (1954)
* Requiem for a Wren (1955)
* Beyond the Black Stump (1956)
* On the Beach (1957)
* The Rainbow and the Rose (1958)
* Trustee from the Toolroom (1960)
* The Seafarers (2002)

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