WAUGH, Evelyn.

£16,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

A Handful of Dust. First edition, in the well-preserved dust jacket.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 has 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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