A Handful of Dust

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A Handful of Dust is a 1934 novel by Evelyn Waugh that satirically portrays the collapse of an upper-class English marriage and the moral emptiness of interwar British society.

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A Handful of Dust canonical 5
A Handful of Dust (1988 film) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
satirical novel
adaptationType film
author Evelyn Waugh
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
form prose fiction
genre satire
social novel
hasAdaptation A Handful of Dust self-linksurface differs
surface form: A Handful of Dust (1988 film)
hasCharacter Brenda Last
John Andrew Last
John Beaver
Mr. Todd
Mrs. Beaver
Tony Last
hasInfluence English comic fiction
hasLiteraryAllusion The Waste Land
hasMotive critique of upper-class values
exploration of spiritual emptiness
literaryMovement Modernism
surface form: modernism
literaryPeriod interwar literature
literaryTone darkly comic
tragic
mainCharacter Brenda Last
John Beaver
Tony Last
mainTheme adultery
collapse of an upper-class English marriage
moral emptiness of British upper-class society
social satire
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor bleak ending
satire of country-house life
originalLanguage English
placeInAuthorOeuvre one of Evelyn Waugh's major novels
publicationYear 1934
publisher Chapman and Hall
settingLocation Brazilian jungle
England
London, England
surface form: London

rural England
settingPeriod interwar period
structure linear narrative
title A Handful of Dust self-link
titleOrigin line from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land

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Evelyn Waugh notableWork A Handful of Dust
A Handful of Dust hasAdaptation A Handful of Dust self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: A Handful of Dust (1988 film)
A Handful of Dust title A Handful of Dust self-link
Black Mischief followedBy A Handful of Dust
Mick Audsley notableWork A Handful of Dust
Arthur notableWork A Handful of Dust
subject surface form: Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh