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        A Handful Of Dust


        setting

        England; South American jungle

        time

        1920s

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1934

        page count

        308

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Tony Last

        Rip's impressions

        Side splitting humour on practically every page, as unlike his novel Brideshead Revisited as he can get.

        first line

        "Was anyone hurt?"
        "No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court."

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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