{"product_id":"a-handful-of-dust-by-evelyn-waugh-9780141183961","title":"A Handful of Dust","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem \u003cem\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e, Evelyn Waugh's \u003cem\u003eA Handful of Dust\u003c\/em\u003e is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his elegant, malicious prose, Evelyn Waugh satirizes British society as he saw it over three decades. From \u003cem\u003eWork Suspended\u003c\/em\u003e, where Plant, a writer of detective fiction, puts his incomplete novel in a drawer until such time as he can finish it (that is to say after the war), to \u003cem\u003eBasil Seal Rides Again\u003c\/em\u003e, in which the hero of \u003cem\u003eBlack Mischief\u003c\/em\u003e defeats the children of the Sixties, these stories encompass much of the social milieu of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume also includes the fragment \u003cem\u003eCharles Ryder's Schooldays\u003c\/em\u003e, which sketches the background to the narrator of \u003cem\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46249830678764,"sku":"9780141183961","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780141183961.jpg?v=1741519923","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/a-handful-of-dust-by-evelyn-waugh-9780141183961","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}