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A Handful of Dust Information
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A Handful of Dust is a novel by Evelyn Waugh published in 1934. The title is an allusion to T. S. Eliot's 1922 poem The Waste...


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Monarch Notes
Works of Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust
01/01/1963: 3,696 words, approx. 12 pages
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 A Handful of Dust Analysis and Comment Chapter 1 Structure and Contrast: As a glance at the table of contents would indicate, though the chapters are of unequal length and unequally subdivided, these major divisions of the structure of A Handful...
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'Fear in a Handful of Dust'
10/18/2001: 780 words, approx. 3 pages
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust," T.S. Eliot wrote in "The Waste Land" in 1922. He could have been describing the Congress today. A handful of anthrax particles sent through the mail to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.)...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jerome Meckier
2,190 words, approx. 7 pages
Dickensians will quickly discern that Waugh [in A Handful of Dust] caricatures Dickens outrageously and, in places, unfairly. But the joke, hilarious and effective, is definitely against Dickens. Waugh's reaction, like Aldous Huxley's, indicates that the response of modern satirical novelists to Dickens has been mixed. At other times an imitator of Dickens, Waugh puts the works of Boz in Mr. Todd's hut for a very satirical reason: he considers the Inimitable largely responsible for the ...
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Critical Essay by Julian Jebb (interview with Evelyn Waugh)
1,273 words, approx. 4 pages
INTERVIEWER: E. M. Forster has spoken of "flat characters and round characters"; if you recognize this distinction, would you agree that you created no "round" characters until A Handful of Dust? WAUGH: All fictional characters are flat. A writer can give an illusion of depth by giving an apparently stereoscopic view of a character—seeing him from two vantage points; all a writer can do is give more or less information about a character, not i...
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Critical Essay by Paul Fussell
847 words, approx. 3 pages
Nobody would argue that vintage Waugh lurks in any of his short stories or that we meet there anything like the magisterial wit of A Handful of Dust, Ninety-Two Days, or The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. Short forms tempt Waugh toward his melodramatic, schoolboy-rag side—he needs more room to develop nuance and the appearance of sympathy with his characters. Still, [Charles Ryder's Schooldays and Other Stories] is a worthwhile collection of short pieces if not a startling one, eleven of the twelv...
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Lasts' Relationship in Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust
1,877 words, approx. 6 pages
In Evelyn Waugh's satirical novel A Handful of Dust, the personalities and character traits of Tony and Brenda Last contributed to the end of their relationship. Pompousness, conceit and the actions motivated by these traits affected their lives in and outside of their marriage.


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