A Handful Of Dust
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: new ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Text - clean.
A darkly comic masterpiece of twentieth-century British fiction, A Handful of Dust chronicles the collapse of Tony Last's seemingly idyllic life as his shallow, unfaithful wife Brenda dismantles their marriage in pursuit of a vapid London socialite. Waugh's satirical eye cuts mercilessly through the brittle veneer of the English upper class, illustrating how modernity, moral emptiness, and social convention conspire to destroy a man clinging to a romantic, outdated vision of civilization. The novel's tone shifts with devastating precision from biting comedy to genuine tragedy, culminating in one of literature's most memorably bleak and ironic endings. Waugh argues, without ever stating it plainly, that the world Tony cherishes — one of duty, tradition, and inherited beauty — has already crumbled, leaving its last defenders stranded in a wilderness of their own making.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Format: Hardback
Published: 1949, Chapman and Hall
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: new ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Text - clean.
A darkly comic masterpiece of twentieth-century British fiction, A Handful of Dust chronicles the collapse of Tony Last's seemingly idyllic life as his shallow, unfaithful wife Brenda dismantles their marriage in pursuit of a vapid London socialite. Waugh's satirical eye cuts mercilessly through the brittle veneer of the English upper class, illustrating how modernity, moral emptiness, and social convention conspire to destroy a man clinging to a romantic, outdated vision of civilization. The novel's tone shifts with devastating precision from biting comedy to genuine tragedy, culminating in one of literature's most memorably bleak and ironic endings. Waugh argues, without ever stating it plainly, that the world Tony cherishes — one of duty, tradition, and inherited beauty — has already crumbled, leaving its last defenders stranded in a wilderness of their own making.