Round the Bend (novel) Round the Bend (novel) Round the Bend is a 1951 novel by Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Constantine "Connie" Shaklin, an aircraft engineer who founds a new religion transcending existing religions based on the merit of good work. It deals with racism, including the White Australia policy, and also with the importance of private enterprise. It was one of the first novels Shute wrote after emigrating from Britain to Australia in 1950. The novel, written in the first person, adopts the voice and eyes of Tom Cutter, an aircraft pilot, engineer, and entrepreneur. The novel starts with Cutter's
The Town (Faulkner novel) in the course of the trilogy. Owen Robinson has noted the contrast in the narrative style and tone between "The Hamlet" and "The Town". Thomas H Rogers commented critically, in his contemporary review of the novel, in his comparison between the literary merits of "The Hamlet" and "The Town". Peter Swiggart has noted that the events and style in "The Town" reflect Faulkner's attempts to create a more realistic social milieu compared to his other works. The Town (Faulkner novel) The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of