{"product_id":"complete-works-of-evelyn-waugh-a-handful-of-dust-volume-4-9780198703150","title":"Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: A Handful of Dust: Volume 4","description":"Evelyn Waugh's \u003cem\u003eA Handful of Dust\u003c\/em\u003e (1934) is often thought to be among his best novels. It is a darkly bitter account of the end of a marriage, its causes and its effects. Waugh wrote the book with half an eye on his own recent experience of the break-up of his marriage to Evelyn Gardner. The care and trouble he took over the work are reflected in his successive revisions of its text in manuscript and print. These can be recovered from sources on both sides of the Atlantic, notably from the autograph and typescript manuscript in the Harry Ransom Center at Austin, Texas, a proof copy of the first edition at the Huntington Library in California, in the serialization in different versions of the first part of the novel in Harper's Bazaar, prepared for the UK and the US markets, and in four editions published in his lifetime in the UK and one in the US. All of these witnesses have been collated in this, the first fully edited and annotated edition of the novel. There is a substantial\u003cbr\u003eintroduction describing the novel's composition and reception, as well as the literary influences on which Waugh drew--including Shakespeare, Dickens, Kipling, and Beatrix Potter. The edition seeks to show Waugh as a consummate craftsman, at work on a painful subject that he treats in comic, tragic, and satirical ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Evelyn Waugh, H. R. Woudhuysen Fba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.68h x 5.54w x 1.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198703150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvelyn Waugh \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eH. R. Woudhuysen was educated at the University of Oxford. He was Professor of English at University College London until 2012 and is now Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. His published work includes (with Michael. F. Suarez, SJ) \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Companion to the Book\u003c\/em\u003e (2010) and \u003cem\u003eThe Book: A Global History\u003c\/em\u003e (2013).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40776892579955,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":197.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_917f8841-e35c-49f3-a21a-d335a6ef9885.jpg?v=1680270876","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/complete-works-of-evelyn-waugh-a-handful-of-dust-volume-4-9780198703150","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}