After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the `crazy and sterile generation` between the wars, The breakdown of the Last marriage, is a painful, comic re-working of Waugh`s own divorce and a symbol of the disintegration of society.
ISBN: 0-14-118396-9
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: январь 1999
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The novel of manners is a sub-genre of the realist novel which deals with aspects of behaviour, language, customs and values characteristic of a particular class of people in a specific historical context. The novel of manners often shows a conflict between individual aspirations or desires and the accepted social codes of behaviour. There's a vital relationship between manners, social behaviour and character. Well known examples of the novel of manners include: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma; William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair , Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence,The House...
ISBN: 978-6-1312-4717-0
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Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011