A Handful of Dust (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Evelyn Waugh
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Twentieth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Voyages, Prisoners, Twentieth century, Social issues, Guilt, England or English people, Adultery, Divorce, London, South America or South Americans, Exploration or explorers, Interior design
- Locales: London, England, Amazon, Brazil
Places Discussed
Hetton. Estate of the Last family, located between the villages of Hetton and Compton Last in the English countryside. Although the novel begins at a house in Sussex Gardens in London, where the man who will cuckold the central character lives, its most important place is Hetton. In this story of the disintegration of a marriage, Waugh uses Hetton, whose owner, Tony Last, is trying to rehabilitate and renovate it, to symbolize Last’s anachronism, since he, like his beloved estate, fits neither in medieval nor in modern England. In the Middle Ages the estate...
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