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A Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1934
Pages
Pages 300

A decent, dull English gentleman loses his wife to a worthless man and his son to an accident, and ends up deep in the Amazon, reading Dickens aloud to a madman forever.

Two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court.
A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh

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