5/26/2023 0 Comments A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh![]() ![]() ![]() His wife leaves him for a callow youth and Tony travels to the Amazon onĪn ill-fated expedition. Then, in short order, the boy is killed in a horse riding accident, ![]() Together but he has a successful marriage (or so he believes) and a wonderful He's barely managed to hold the family estate Tony Last (presumably the last of his tribe) is a member of Britain'sĭeclining landed gentry. In what many consider his greatest novel, Evelyn Waugh-fueled by theĮssence of this quote from the Wasteland, the failure of his own marriage,Ī chance meeting with a British expatriate in South American and his ownĬonversion to Catholicism-creates a savage satire of modern Britain. I will show you fear in a handful of dust. Or you shadow at evening rising to meet you Your shadow at morning striding behind you I will show you something different from either ![]()
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