![]() ![]() In an exchange of emails with one of Letterpress’ regular guest book reviewers after he had submitted his insightful piece on Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, I rather blithely asserted that in my view Brideshead was not Waugh’s masterpiece and that that accolade should go to his 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust.īack in the late 1970s when I was a new teacher of English in a Sandwell secondary school, A Handful of Dust was one of the books on the ‘A’ level English curriculum and, even then as I was coaxing them through it, I was puzzled about what a small group of, albeit pretty bright, 16 and 17 year olds were making of Waugh’s world. ![]()
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