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A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh · Booklabria

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A Handful of Dust

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A Handful of Dust

Name: A Handful of Dust
Author: Evelyn Waugh

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First published: 1934
Editions: 81 in 3 languages

Synopsis

Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. She sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. Tragedy forces the collapse of their relationship to accelerate, and Tony seeks solace in a foolhardy search for El Dorado.

Subjects: England
Humorous
Married people
British
Aristocracy
Adultery
Set in: England
Brazil
Time: 1930'S

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81 in 3 languages

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English70 Italian1 Swedish1

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