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A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Classic Fiction
A whole Gothic world had come to grief ...' Beautiful Lady Brenda Last lives at Hetton Abbey, a crumbling Gothic monstrosity that is her husband Tony's pride and joy. Bored and restless after seven years of marriage, she drifts into an affair with a worthless young socialite. Abandoning the country for ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: 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. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.'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 th ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Beautiful Lady Brenda Last lives at Hetton Abbey, a Gothic monstrosity that is the pride and joy of her devoted husband, Tony. Bored and restless after seven years of marriage, she drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the glamorous Belgravia set. But, instea ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Classic Fiction
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal bor ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Fiction
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, com ...Show more
A Handful of Dust: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dustis a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's Gothic pile to conduct an affair with shallow socialite John Beaver of the Belgravia set. A Handful of Dustremains one of the fi ...Show more
A Little Learning by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Fiction
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography'. The author begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius.
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, hi ...Show more
A Tourist in Africa by Evelyn Waugh
Category: Fiction
Captures a portrait of Africa and the Levant as it was emerging from the shadow of WW II and into the post-colonial order. The author reports on Port Said, Aden, Kenya, Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Bechuanaland and South Africa. He was no defender of the established order, but nor d ...Show more