A Handful of Dust
★ 3.6 avg
21 votes
About this book
Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. She sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. Tragedy forces the collapse of their relationship to accelerate, and Tony seeks solace in a foolhardy search for El Dorado.
Reader Profile
3.6/5 · 21 readers · 232 pages · ≈ 4 h 18 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read A Handful of Dust?
About ≈ 4 h 18 m — 232 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is A Handful of Dust?
232 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is A Handful of Dust?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is A Handful of Dust in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote A Handful of Dust?
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966).