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A Handful of Dust: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Evelyn Waugh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 dec 2000
Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poemThe Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh'sA Handful of Dustis 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 Davis.

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, comedy and savage irony,A Handful of Dustcaptures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars. This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce, and a symbol of the disintegration of society.

If you enjouyedA Handful of Dust, you might like Waugh'sVile Bodies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'One of the twentieth century's most chilling and bitter novels; and one of its best'
Nicholas Lezard,Guardian

'One of the most distinguished novels of the century'
Frank Kermode

'This is a masterpiece of stylish satire, and is funny, too ... a marvellous book'
John Banville,Irish Times
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141183961
ISBN-10: 0141183969
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel,Decline and Fall, which was soon followed byVile Bodies(1930),Black Mischief(1932),A Handful of Dust(1934) andScoop(1938). During these years he travelled extensively in most parts of Europe, the Near East, Africa and tropical America, and published a number of travel books, includingLabels(1930),Remote People,(1931),Ninety-Two Days(1934) andWaugh in Abyssinia(1936). In 1939 he was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, serving in the Middle East and in Yugoslavia. In 1942 he publishedPut Out More Flagsand then in 1945Brideshead Revisited.When the Going was GoodandThe Loved OneprecededMen at Arms, which came out in 1952, the first volume of 'The Sword of Honour' trilogy, and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The other volumes,Officers and GentlemenandUnconditional Surrender, followed in 1955 and 1961. He died in 1966.