Author: WAUGH, EVELYN (1903-1966). DAVIS, ROBERT MURRAY
Title: A handful of dust / Evelyn Waugh
Description: London : Penguin 1951. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Series; Penguin classics. Physical description; 221 pages. Summary; 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 Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy. comedy and savage irony. A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars. The breakdown of the Last marriage. is a painful. comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce and a symbol of the disintegration of society. Subjects; English literature — 20th century. Adultery — Great Britain — Fiction. Upper class — Great Britain — Fiction. Archaeological expeditions — Brazil — Fiction. Adultery — Fiction. Divorce — Fiction. Fiction in English. (1900-) — Texts. Fiction in English — (1900-1945) — Texts. General & literary fiction ; Classic fiction. Fiction / Classics. Genres; Fiction. Illustrated. Satire. Weight in Kg appr.:

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