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A Handful of Dust
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Narrator
- Andrew Sachs
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 11 December 2012
- Run Time
- 6 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Handful of Dust movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I.
"Absolutely delightful" —New York Times
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.
Critics Review
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"A story both tragic and hilariously funny, that seems to move along without aid from its author...Unquestionably the best book Mr. Waugh has written."—Saturday Review
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"The most mature and the best written novel that Mr. Waugh has yet produced."—New Statesman & Nation
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"Absolutely delightful."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
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"Glacially sardonic....A masterpiece."—TIME
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"A brilliant satirical study of the eccentric between-wars society to which Waugh belonged."—LIFE
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"Waugh treats society as a wonderland in which he plays the part of a rude, libellous, yet domestic Alice."—V.S. Pritchett
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Details
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- Narrator
- Andrew Sachs
- Duration
- 6 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 December 2012
- ISBN
- 9781619693883
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Satirical fiction and parodies, Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Handful of Dust movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I."Absolutely delightful" —New York Times 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.
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