![]() ![]() In his telling of the break-up of the marriage of Tony and Brenda Last, Waugh deals with his feelings of shame and humiliation after the collapse of his first marriage a few years before. ![]() But in A Handful of Dust Waugh employs satire and irony as a way of dealing with issues both more personal and more meaningful than mere social criticism. Waugh, who himself was a product of elite schools and the London social scene, had poked fun at modern society in earlier novels as well. Written in a scathing if understated style, A Handful of Dust skewers the English high society of the years between the world wars. ![]() Although it is not Evelyn Waugh's most famous work, many critics consider A Handful of Dust, published in 1934, to be his finest novel. ![]()
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