9780141183961

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A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)

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. 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. This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce, and a symbol of the disintegration of society.

Evelyn Waugh

Title : 9780141183961

ISBN : 9780141183961

Publisher : Penguin Classics UK

Pages : 320

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Pub date : Apr 4, 2024, 08:00 AM

C m s pub date : Apr 8, 2024, 08:00 AM

Length : 196

Width : 128

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