WAUGH, Evelyn.

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A Handful of Dust. First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With all best wishes, from Evelyn Waugh".A Handful of Dust is "widely regarded as his masterpiece, a satire on the collapse of civilized values, concentrating on the barbarism of contemporary sexual mores and divorce" (ODNB). Harold Acton noted the biographical allusions in this title, the "black humour and vein of cruelty, sharpened by the failure of his early marriage. A Handful of Dust was written in his blood" (quoted in McDonnell, p. 68).

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