A Handful of Dust

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Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this “absolutely delightful” novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I.
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown 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. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage irony, Evelyn Waugh indelibly captures the irresponsible mood of the “crazy and sterile generation” between the wars.
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008729CYI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 11, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 812 KB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316216289
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #41,382 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #30 in Satire #143 in Satire Fiction #160 in Classic Literary Fiction
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