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A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A whole Gothic world had come to grief ...' Beautiful Lady Brenda Last lives at Hetton Abbey, a crumbling Gothic monstrosity that is her husband Tony's pride and joy. Bored and restless after seven years of marriage, she drifts into an affair with a worthless young socialite. Abandoning the country for ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
$9.99 NZD
$24.00 (58% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem "The Waste Land", Evelyn Waugh's "A Handful of Dust" is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray ...Show more
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
$17.98 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.'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 th ...Show more
A Handful of Dust: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dustis a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's Gothic pile to conduct an affair with shallow socialite John Beaver of the Belgravia set. A Handful of Dustremains one of the fi ...Show more
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves, contributed to his genius. Save for a few pale shadows, hi ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The Penguin English Library
A beautiful edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the S ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age be ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics S.
Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war. In so doing, it provides a study of the conflict between the demands of religion and of the flesh.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
$60.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This Penguin Classic is the result of a creative collaboration between Bill Amberg and the world's favourite publisher. It is one in a series of six luxury leather-bound titles. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, "Brideshead Revisited" looks back to the golden age before the Sec ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited (10xCDs - unabridged) by Evelyn Waugh (reader Jeremy Irons)
$74.99 NZD
Category: CDs
Charles Ryder's friendship with the charming, irrepressible Sebastian Flyte and his equally charming, eccentric family begins when they are both Oxford Undergraduates in 1923. Carefree days of drinking champagne and driving in the country soon end however, as Sebastian's health deteriorates. Questions a ...Show more
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh Centenary Edition) by Evelyn Waugh
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, SebastianÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants, gradually becoming infatuated with them ...Show more