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|title=A Handful of Dust

|author=Evelyn Waugh

|date=December 2000

|isbn=978-0141183961

|sort=Handful of Dust

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A complex class society which evolved into a highly sophisticated culture is invariably a fertile ground for development of social satire, and British literature would have been hugely depleted if all novels that can be regarded as such were suddenly to disappear. Evelyn Waugh made the genre his own, and ''A Handful of Dust'' is a sublime example of his mastery of it.