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Containing many of the qualities typical of Waugh's satirical novels, HANDFUL OF DUST tells the story of Tony Last, proud owner of a Victorian gothic country house, HETTON.
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In Evelyn Waugh's, A Handful of Dust, Tony Last exists as an aristocrat whose devotion to Victorian values and beliefs controls and dictates his life; leaving him blind to the unhappiness and boredom his wife, Brenda, experiences due to his primitive and outdated ways.
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Handful of Dust is Waugh's materpiece--I must say with regret that except for the scenes with Guinness, the movie can't live up to the book--it is Waugh's language that makes it--and it just doesn't ... Evelyn Waugh 1988 Handful of Dust Mr Todd Tony Last James Wilby Alec Guinnes Charles Sturridge...
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A Handful of Dust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Handful of Dust is a novel by Evelyn Waugh published in 1934. It is included in Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels, and Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2...
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It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, ... As Tony is driven by the urbane savagery of this world to seek solace in the wilds of the Brazilian jungle, A Handful of Dust demonstrates the incomparably brilliant and wicked wit of one of the twentieth century’s most accomplished novelists.
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I really felt for Tony, ... That part doesn't last all that long, but it is the part you remember most. ... If you don't want to read this novel, I would say that you should go to your (local, independent) bookstore, crack A Handful of Dust open to Chapter Six (towards the very end, page 284 in my copy) and read that as a short story.
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IMDb > A Handful of Dust (1988) ... So in the novel and film Tony Last behaves well to everyone despite a great many people, not least his 'modern' wife Brenda, treating him appallingly badly. He is loyal, values tradition, honest, accommodating and indulgent and in return loses everything.
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the title of A Handful of Dust is annexed directly from one of Eliot's more ominous stanzas (the whole stanza appears on Waugh's title page). ... Tony Last, in A Handful of Dust, is a doomed man once he agrees to give up his country seat of Hetton and embark on a venture of overseas exploration.
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Problematic in this reading of A Handful of Dust is the role of religion in the imperial project. Apparent in the novel is a critique of the dominant Anglican religion, through it's failure to change the decadent and demoralised society that destroys Tony Last.
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