All of these witnesses have been collated in this, the first fully edited and annotated edition of the novel. US markets, and in four editions published in his lifetime in the UK and one in the US. The Atlantic, notably from the autograph and typescript manuscript in the Harry Ransom Center at Austin, Texas, a proof copy of the first edition at the Huntington Library in California, in the serialization in different versions of the first part of the novel in Harper's Bazaar, prepared for the UK and the These can be recovered from sources on both sides of The care and trouble he took over the work are reflected in his successive revisions of its text in manuscript and print. Waugh wrote the book with half an eye on his own recent experience of the break-up of his marriage to Evelyn Gardner. It is a darkly bitter account of the end of a marriage, its causes and its effects. Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust (1934) is often thought to be among his best novels.
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