Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). Waugh travelled extensively and also wrote several travel books, as well as a biography of Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox. Other famous works include his Sword of Honour trilogy, and Brideshead Revisited (1945).
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ISBN 13 | 9780140111507 |
ISBN 10 | 0140111506 |
Title | A Handful of Dust |
Author | Waugh Evelyn |
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Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
Year published | 1988-06-09 |
Number of pages | 224 |
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