A Handful of Dust

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A Handful of Dust is a 1934 novel by Evelyn Waugh that satirically portrays the collapse of an upper-class English marriage and the moral emptiness of interwar British society.

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A Handful of Dust canonical 5
A Handful of Dust (1988 film) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
satirical novel
adaptationType film
author Evelyn Waugh
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
form prose fiction
genre satire
social novel
hasAdaptation A Handful of Dust (1988 film)
linked to: A Handful of Dust
hasCharacter Brenda Last
John Andrew Last
John Beaver
Mr. Todd
Mrs. Beaver
Tony Last
hasInfluence English comic fiction
hasLiteraryAllusion The Waste Land
hasMotive critique of upper-class values
exploration of spiritual emptiness
literaryMovement modernism
linked to: Modernism
literaryPeriod interwar literature
literaryTone darkly comic
tragic
mainCharacter Brenda Last
John Beaver
Tony Last
mainTheme adultery
collapse of an upper-class English marriage
moral emptiness of British upper-class society
social satire
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor bleak ending
satire of country-house life
originalLanguage English
placeInAuthorOeuvre one of Evelyn Waugh's major novels
publicationYear 1934
publisher Chapman and Hall
settingLocation Brazilian jungle
England
London
linked to: London, England

rural England
settingPeriod interwar period
structure linear narrative
title A Handful of Dust
titleOrigin line from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land

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Evelyn Waugh notableWork A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust hasAdaptation A Handful of Dust (1988 film)
linked to: A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust title A Handful of Dust
Black Mischief followedBy A Handful of Dust
Mick Audsley notableWork A Handful of Dust
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh notableWork A Handful of Dust
subject linked to: Arthur