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  1. A Handful of Dust is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh. First published in 1934, it is often grouped with the author's early, satirical comic novels for which he became famous in the pre– World War II years.

  2. A Handful of Dust is a 1988 British film directed by Charles Sturridge, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh. It stars James Wilby and Kristin Scott Thomas. Originally conceived as a television project, it was the first feature film financed by London Weekend Television.

  3. A Handful of Dust, satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh, published in 1934. The novel, which is often considered Waugh’s best, examines the themes of contemporary amorality and the death of spiritual values.

  4. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh is a cynical satire on the aristocratic and upper-class society. Being a traditionalist, Waugh resented the modern urbane materialistic life led by the privileged class.

  5. A film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel about a British aristocrat who suffers from his wife's affair and his son's accident. Roger Ebert praises the performances and the irony of the ending, but questions the motivations of the characters.

  6. Under Jock's direction the boiler man and one of the gardeners pegged out a dust sheet in the park to mark a landing for her and lit a bonfire of damp leaves to show the direction of the wind. The five trunks arrived in the ordinary way by train, with an elderly, irreproachable maid.

  7. Dec 11, 2012 · Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this "absolutely delightful" novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and...

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