A HANDFUL OF DUST is Evelyn Waugh's scathing commentary on the well-mannered death struggles of the upper classes — an irrepressibly amusing picture of society politely blowing its own brains out, with a defiant smile.
It tells of Brenda,...
Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners," Evelyn Waugh's famous first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford and inviolable honor code of English upper classes.
Paul Pennyfeather, innocent...
In the heart of the novel famous English writer Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) - the fate of Elena Flavia, mother of Roman Emperor Constantine I, the founder of Constantinople. Life of this woman, according to legend, which found part of the cross on...