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A Handful of Dust. Capa dura – 27 outubro 2022. 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.
11 de dez. de 2012 · 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 gentleman's wife.
- Evelyn Waugh
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
The Waste Land is a poem about modern life stripped of deeper spiritual meaning. The ‘I will show you fear in a handful of dust’, in referring to both human mortality and the fate of the Sibyl, shows the horror of both, offering something ‘beyond ourselves’ as the solution or cure to this fear. The phrase ‘a handful of dust’, from ...
11 de dez. de 2012 · 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 gentleman's wife.
- Evelyn Waugh
A Handful of Dust is a classic satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh. Published in 1934 by Back Bay Books, it tells the story of rich characters living in England who have tragically comic lives. It’s a popular book for studying satire and it’s well-received by critics. Waugh is a highly regarded writer who based A Handful of Dust on his own ...
A Handful Of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1934, is the story of country squire Tony Last, who, after the collapse of his marriage, takes a trip into the South American jungle. I found this a difficult book to get my head around, but it wasn’t hard work to read. Far from it.
- Evelyn Waugh
