A Handful of Dust is a classic satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh. Published in 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. Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is one more example. Written in , A Handful of Dust is listed as number 34 of the Modern Library's Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century. A Handful of Dust is set in s Victorian England, and focuses Cited by: Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust. He may have written better and greater novels than this one but this is my favourite Waugh novel, if only because of its wicked humour. It is based on Waugh’s own personal experience when he travelled to Brazil in after the failure of his first marriage.
A Handful of Dust is a novel by the British writer Evelyn www.doorway.ru published in , it is often grouped with the author's early, satirical comic novels for which he became famous in the pre-World War II www.doorway.rutators have, however, drawn attention to its serious undertones, and have regarded it as a transitional work pointing towards Waugh's Catholic postwar fiction. Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies, Black Mischief (), A Handful of Dust () and Scoop (). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. A HANDFUL OF DUST. Here I am back at Underhill. When I paid a site visit in , my camera's eye was drawn to the 'Evelyn Waugh lived here' plaque on the front of the house, not to the front door. Also, there is a hedge around the house, protecting it from the worst of the noise from North End Road as traffic moves between Golders Green.
A Handful of Dust Cover of first UK edition AuthorEvelyn Waugh CountryUnited Kingdom LanguageEnglish GenreFiction Publisher Chapman Hall Penguin Books Publication date A Handful of Dust is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh. First published in , 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 transit. Published in , A Handful of Dust is a satirical novel that offers a social perspective of life among the upper classes in England in the early twentieth century. The socially privileged thrive on club membership, nightly parties, and the latest gossip. Despite A Handful of Dust [ ] boasting one of the darkest endings of all Waugh’s production, there is still room for a faint hope, that is, quoting Teddy,”one day to restore Hetton to the splendor that it had enjoyed in the days of his cousin Tony” or, metaphorically, to backtrack, to regain possession of the glorious chivalrous values of the past and thus to return to man his lost dignity.
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