A Handful of Dust is a novel by Evelyn Waugh published in 1934. It is included in Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels, and was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present.
The title is a reference to a line from the poem The Waste Land (1922), by T. S. Eliot:
- I will show you something different from either
- Your shadow at morning striding behind you
- Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
- I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Waugh originally titled the novel A Handful of Ashes, but, after a dispute with his American publishers, he chose the quotation from The Waste land.
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