- Adultery, Fiction, Divorce, Fiction, satire
Tony Last is an aristocrat whose attachment to an ideal feudal past is so profound that he is blind to his wife Brenda's boredom with the stately rhythms of country life. She sets herself up in a London flat and pursues an affair with the social-climbing idler John Beaver. Tragedy forces the collapse of their relationship to accelerate, and Tony seeks solace in a foolhardy search for El Dorado.
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Cool, classical in form, prestige and ironic.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Evelyn Waugh
- First published
- 1934
- Pages
- 265
- Publisher
- PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS / PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, Farrar & Rinehart, New Directions
- Editions
- 83
- Language
- Italian, Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9780736620550
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