A Handful of Dust. Vile Flesh. Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) — an outstanding British writer, biographer, and journalist, one of the most subtle English stylists, as well as a recognized master of black humor and biting satire; the creator of grotesquely funny fantasies where the lifestyle of the fading British Empire is whimsically refracted. This edition includes three novels that can undoubtedly be classified as the most vivid and widely known works of the author: "A Handful of Dust", "Vile Flesh", and "Decline and Fall". Their characters belong to different generations and different classes. The hero of the novel "A Handful of Dust" Tony Last — a landowner, a naive idealist and romantic, brought down to dust after his wife's betrayal and his son's death. The characters of the novel "Vile Flesh" belong to the generation of the twenties of the last century; they spend their days in tireless pursuit of worldly pleasures, exercising their inventive minds in new whims and adventures. The main character of the novel "Decline and Fall" — a teacher who takes a job at a privileged private school after being disgracefully expelled from Oxford for participating in a wild party. These heroes, so different, are united by a common fatal fate, an inexorable doom, driving them to reckless, sometimes inexplicable actions and decisions.