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Hardcover - January 1, 2001. In Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh examines the clash of modern and traditional values within the context of a seemingly happy marriage. In London's hyperactive post-War War I society, Tone Last is not in fashion. He devotes himself to things traditional such as the upkeep of his ancestral home, a Gothic mansion.
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Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century. Learn more about this author Footer. Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world..
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A Handful of Dust. Evelyn Waugh. Everyman, 2002 - Fiction - 225 pages. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Evelyn Waugh's 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house.
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An illustration of an open book. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk.. A Handful Of Dust by Waugh Evelyn. Publication date 1934 Topics Language Linguistics Literature, Flask, C-DAC, Noida, DLI Top-Up Publisher Little Brown and Company, Boston
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A Handful of Dust, satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1934.The novel, which is often considered Waugh's best, examines the themes of contemporary amorality and the death of spiritual values. Precipitated by the failure of Waugh's marriage and by his conversion to Roman Catholicism, the novel points out the similarities between the savagery of so-called civilized London society.
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Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century. Learn more about this author Footer. Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world..
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A Handful of Dust is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh.First published in 1934, it is often grouped with the author's early, satirical comic novels for which he became famous in the pre-World War II years. Some commentators regard it as a transitional work due to its serious undertones, pointing towards Waugh's Catholic postwar fiction.. Tony Last is an English country squire, who.
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A Handful of Dust. Evelyn Waugh. Penguin Books Limited, May 31, 2012 - Fiction - 320 pages. Evelyn Waugh's celebrated tale of decadence and social disintegration, with an introduction by Philip Eade. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of.
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Mass Market Paperback. $16.80. Audio, Cassette. Digital. Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have money, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers.
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3.90. 26,397 ratings1,603 reviews. Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom.
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A Handful of Dust. Evelyn Waugh. Little, Brown, Dec 11, 2012 - Fiction - 304 pages. Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this "absolutely delightful" novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I.
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A Handful of Dust. Paperback - July 24 2018. 'It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.'. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes.
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Paperback - 7 Dec. 2000. Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis.
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A Handful of Dust is a devastatingly funny book that gives a glimpse into British society between the wars. The book is about a man whose life falls apart. The hero of this novel is Tony Last who is a country gentleman, and things begin to go wrong for poor Tony when his wife decides that she really doesn't want live the life of a country.
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An illustration of an open book. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk.. A handful of dust by Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. Publication date 1999 Topics Aristocracy (Social class), British, Country homes, Adultery Publisher Boston : Back Bay Books