If you enjouyed A Handful of Dust, you might like Waugh’s Vile Bodies, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh’s own divorce, and a symbol of the disintegration of society. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set.īrilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the ‘crazy and sterile generation’ between the wars. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis.Īfter seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony.
Eliot’s modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain’s decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars.
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