A Handful Of Dust And Decline And Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Two darkly comic novels track gullible men undone by the hypocrisies and petty cruelties of interwar British society: one follows an innocent young graduate who is expelled from university and drifts through a succession of farcical, morally bankrupt jobs that expose the shallow opportunism of his social world; the other follows an idealistic country gentleman whose comfortable life collapses after his wife’s infidelities, leading to financial ruin and an ultimately absurd, tragic confinement. Both stories use wit and bitter irony to lampoon class, marriage, and the hollowing of traditional values, mixing satire with a grim undercurrent of loss and disillusionment.
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