| Front | A handful of Dust |
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| Back | Novel Evelyn Waugh 1934 A satirical novel Recounts the story of Tony Last Last's wife lady Brenda is infatuated with a young socialite John Beaver and frustrated by her husband's old-fashioned ways 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. Commentators have, however, drawn attention to its serious undertones, and have regarded it as a transitional work pointing towards Waugh's Catholic postwar fiction. |
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