A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh

Explanatory notes

1. ^ Hastings observes that Waugh's diaries date the writing of the story to between 12–14 February. She believes that although Waugh may have begun the story in Boa Vista, it unlikely that a story of this length and complexity could be completed in two days and notes that story incorporates events that occurred after Waugh left Boa Vista.[23] For example, on his way back from Boa Vista Waugh spent eight days at the St Ignatius Mission in Bon Success, where he records that he found novels by Dickens in the Mission library, and read Dombey and Son and Nicholas Nickleby "with avid relish".[24][25]
2. ^ In his introduction to the 1997 Penguin edition of A Handful of Dust, Robert Murray Davis argues that the novel's vision is bleaker than that of the poem, the last lines of which suggest some hope of future salvation. The novel, says Davis, "rejects even that faint consolation".[42]
3. ^ On 3 October 1954 the American television series General Electric Theater screened an adaptation of "The Man Who Liked Dickens", entitled "High Green Wall". Joseph Cotten played the trapped explorer; Ronald Reagan was the series host.[99]

Citations

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2. ^ Hastings, p. 145
3. ^ Sykes, pp. 72–73
4. ^ Sykes, pp. 107–08
5. ^ a b Stannard 1993, pp. 282–83
6. ^ Stannard 1993, p. 225
7. ^ Stannard 1993, pp. 340–41
8. ^ Stannard 1984, p. 133
9. ^ Stannard 1984, pp. 135–36
10. ^ Amory (ed.), pp. 72–78
11. ^ Stannard 1993, p. 339
12. ^ Stannard 1993, pp. 306–07
13. ^ Hastings, pp. 267–68
14. ^ Stannard 1993, p. 304
15. ^ Sykes, pp. 127–28
16. ^ Davie (ed.), p. 372
17. ^ Waugh: Ninety-two Days, pp. 86–87
18. ^ Hastings, p. 275
19. ^ Waugh: Ninety-two Days, p. 234
20. ^ Davie (ed.), pp. 370–71
21. ^ Sykes, p. 131
22. ^ Stannard 1993, p. 325
23. ^ Hastings, p. 278
24. ^ Stannard 1993, p. 329
25. ^ Davie (ed.), p. 374
26. ^ a b c d Wykes, pp. 104–05
27. ^ Meckier, Jerome (Winter 1980). "Why the Man Who Liked Dickens Reads Dickens Instead of Conrad: Waugh's a Handful of Dust". Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 13 (2): 171–72. doi:10.2307/1345308. JSTOR 1345308. (subscription required)
28. ^ Slater (ed.), pp. 593–95
29. ^ a b c d Waugh, Evelyn (8 April 1946). "Fan-Fare: An answer to the ladies all over the U.S.A." Life (International: Chicago): 53–60. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014.
30. ^ Stannard 1993, pp. 343–44
31. ^ Stannard 1993, pp. 356–57
32. ^ Amory (ed.), p. 84
33. ^ Amory (ed.), p. 85
34. ^ a b Stannard 1993, pp. 360–61
35. ^ Hastings, pp. 247–46 and 298
36. ^ Stannard 1993, p. 364
37. ^ a b c Hastings, p. 298
38. ^ Hastings, pp. 298 and 310
39. ^ Sykes, p. 138
40. ^ Amory (ed.), p. 87
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42. ^ Davis, p. xv
43. ^ Conrad, Joseph (2004). "Youth" (PDF). University of Adelaide(ebook). p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 August 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016. ...the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires
44. ^ Tennyson, Alfred (1855). Maud and Other Poems. London: Edward Moxon. Dead, long dead! And my heart is a handful of dust (Part V stanza 1)
45. ^ Donne, John. "IV. Meditation". John Donne's Devotions. Christian Classics Ethereal library. Retrieved 16 September 2015. ...what's become of man's great extent and proportion, when himself shrinks himself and consumes himself to a handful of dust
46. ^ Wykes, p. 35
47. ^ Lewis, p. 472
48. ^ a b Wykes, pp. 106–07
49. ^ Hastings, p. 279
50. ^ Hastings, p. 272
51. ^ Stannard 1993, p. 382
52. ^ McDonnell, pp. 24–25
53. ^ Waugh: A Little Learning, pp. 71–72
54. ^ Greenberg, Jonathan (Summer 2003). "'Was Anyone Hurt?': The Ends of Satire in A Handful of Dust". Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 36 (3): 351–73. doi:10.1215/ddnov.036030351. JSTOR 1346095. (subscription required)
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59. ^ Stannard 1984, pp. 4 and 382
60. ^ a b William Plomer review, The Spectator, 14 September 1934, reproduced in Stannard 1984, pp. 153–54
61. ^ Fisher, p. 121
62. ^ a b Sykes, pp. 140–41
63. ^ Waugh: A Handful of Dust, p. 213
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65. ^ Stannard 1993, pp. 378–79
66. ^ Quoted in Stannard 1984, p. 384
67. ^ Waugh, quoted in Davis, p. xvii
68. ^ Davis, p. xxiv
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70. ^ Bernard Bergonzi, article in Blackfriars journal, July–August 1964, reproduced in Stannard 1984, pp. 159–60
71. ^ a b Amory (ed.), p. 88
72. ^ Stannard 1993, pp. 310–11
73. ^ Waugh: A Handful of Dust, p. 153
74. ^ Stannard 1993, p. 355
75. ^ Waugh: A Handful of Dust, p. 164
76. ^ Waugh: A Handful of Dust, p. 205
77. ^ Stannard 1993, pp. 380–81
78. ^ a b c d Stannard 1993, pp. 374–75
79. ^ Waugh: A Handful of Dust, p. 17
80. ^ Brigid Brophy, article in New Statesman, 25 September 1964, reproduced in Stannard 1984, pp. 159–60
81. ^ Hastings, p. 300
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General and cited sources

• Amory, Mark, ed. (1995). The Letters of Evelyn Waugh. London: Phoenix. ISBN 1-85799-245-8. (Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1980)
• Davie, Michael, ed. (1976). The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-77126-4.
• Davis, Robert Murray (1997). "Introduction" to E. Waugh: A Handful of Dust. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-018886-X.
• Fisher, Clive (1995). Cyril Connolly. London: Papermac. ISBN 0-333-64965-6.
• Hastings, Selina (1994). Evelyn Waugh: A biography. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. ISBN 1-85619-223-7.
• Lewis, Jeremy (1998). Cyril Connolly: A Life. London: Pimlico. ISBN 0-7126-6635-4.
• McDonnell, Jacqueline (1985). Waugh on Women. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-2006-1.
• Slater, Ann Pasternak, ed. (1998). Evelyn Waugh: The Complete Short Stories (Introduction). London: Everyman's. ISBN 1-85715-190-9.
• Stannard, Martin (1993). Evelyn Waugh, Volume I: The Early Years 1903–1939. London: Flamingo. ISBN 0-586-08678-1.
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• Waugh, Evelyn (1934). Ninety-two Days. London: Duckworth. OCLC 504724214.
• Waugh, Evelyn (1997). A Handful of Dust. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-018886-X.
• Waugh, Evelyn (1983). A Little Learning. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-006604-7.
• Wykes, David (1999). Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life. London: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-61138-1.