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A Handful of Dust [With Ribbon Marker] (Everyman's Library) - Hardcover

Waugh, Evelyn

 
9780375414206: A Handful of Dust [With Ribbon Marker] (Everyman's Library)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375414207 ISBN 13: 9780375414206
Verlag: KNOPF, 2002

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Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragicomic disasters that reveal Waugh at his most scathing.

The action is set in the brittle social world recognizable from Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, darkened and deepened by Waugh’s own experience of sexual betrayal. As Tony is driven by the urbane savagery of this world to seek solace in the wilds of the Brazilian jungle, A Handful of Dust demonstrates the incomparably brilliant and wicked wit of one of the twentieth century’s most accomplished novelists.

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Evelyn Waugh was born in England in 1903 and died in 1966.

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Verlag
KNOPF
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375414207
ISBN 13 
9780375414206
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
264
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