A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Paperback Book

Description: A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, Philip Eade 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. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Taking its title from T.S. Eliots modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waughs A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britains 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 Davis.In his elegant, malicious prose, Evelyn Waugh satirizes British society as he saw it over three decades. From Work Suspended, where Plant, a writer of detective fiction, puts his incomplete novel in a drawer until such time as he can finish it (that is to say after the war), to Basil Seal Rides Again, in which the hero of Black Mischief defeats the children of the Sixties, these stories encompass much of the social milieu of the twentieth century. The volume also includes the fragment Charles Ryders Schooldays, which sketches the background to the narrator of Brideshead Revisited. Author Biography Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966. Review "A vicious, witty novel." --"New York Times ""Waughs technique is relentless and razor-edged...By any standard it is super satire." --"Chicago Daily News""The most mature and the best written novel that Mr. Waugh has yet produced." --"New Statesman & Nation ""A story both tragic and hilariously funny, that seems to move along without aid from its author...Unquestionably the best book Mr. Waugh has written." --"Saturday Review ""A vicious, witty novel." --"New York Times" "Waughs technique is relentless and razor-edged...By any standard it is super satire." --"Chicago Daily News""The most mature and the best written novel that Mr. Waugh has yet produced." --"New Statesman & Nation" "A story both tragic and hilariously funny, that seems to move along without aid from its author...Unquestionably the best book Mr. Waugh has written." --"Saturday Review" Promotional Taking its title from T.S. Eliots modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waughs A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britains 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 Davis. Kirkus US Review Sometimes one detects a note of spoofing; the rest of the time this reads like rather far-fetched straight story. In either case, it is a none too flattering picture of the fringe of Londons smart set, that set which thinks it achieves success by swapping mates and collecting admirers. The story of simple Tony, county gentleman of the old school, loving his ugly old home, adoring his wife and son; and of Brenda, accidentally discovering she is bored, and taking up a youth who lives by his slender wits and other peoples invitations. She decides she must have a divorce, and Tony plays the conventional gentleman until he discovers that she is willing to pauperize him to buy herself her gigolo husband. Then the worm turns - and he is off to South America on a fantastic exploration, which has an even more fantastic finale in the Amazonian jungles. Not Waugh at his best. It falls a bit flat, much of the time. (Kirkus Reviews) Promotional "Headline" Taking its title from T.S. Eliots modernist poem The Waste Land , Evelyn Waughs A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britains 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 Davis. Details ISBN0141183969 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2000 ISBN-10 0141183969 ISBN-13 9780141183961 Format Paperback Publication Date 2000-12-07 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.912 Author Philip Eade Media Book Birth 1903 Death 1966 Short Title HANDFUL OF DUST Residence US Series Penguin Modern Classics Edition 00000th Imprint Penguin Classics DOI 10.1604/9780141183961 UK Release Date 2000-12-07 Audience General NZ Release Date 2001-01-08 AU Release Date 2001-01-08 Pages 336 Alternative 9780241585276 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:6465316;

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