A handful of dust
Subtitle: a novel
By: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780316216272; 9780316216265
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social class); Fiction; British; Adultery; Country homes
Description: 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.