{"id":217,"date":"2012-09-02T01:25:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=217"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:25:41","slug":"year-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1934: <strong>A Handful of Dust<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Evelyn Waugh<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1232801~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evelyn Waugh\u2019s satirical novel about the pretentious and insipid world of the London aristocracy has been named as one of the best books of the twentieth century by both Time magazine and Modern Library. Chronicling the demise of the marriage between Tony and Brenda Last, <em>A Handful of Dust<\/em> depicts the English elite\u2019s struggle to maintain their precarious place in society during the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The title of the book comes from a poem by T.S. Eliot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cI will show you something different from either<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Your shadow at morning striding behind you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I will show you fear in a handful of dust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/HandfulofDust1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-218\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/HandfulofDust1-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/HandfulofDust1-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/HandfulofDust1.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/HandfulofDust2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-219\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/HandfulofDust2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1934: A Handful of Dust Author\/Editor: Evelyn Waugh Find it in Collins Library! Evelyn Waugh\u2019s satirical novel about the pretentious and insipid world of the London aristocracy has been named as one of the best books of the twentieth century by both Time magazine and Modern Library. Chronicling the demise of the marriage between Tony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1928-1937"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}