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Near the end of A Handful of Dust ( 1934), Evelyn Waugh sentenced one of his characters to a bizarre fate. Tony Last was trapped forever in the backwaters of the Amazon, held prisoner by an illiterate half-breed who demanded, at gunpoint, that Tony read aloud to him the collected works of Charles Dickens. Waugh's barbed tribute to Dickens' universal popularity hilariously summed up an attitude then prevalent among the literati: Dickens was fine for soothing savage breasts, but he was not a writer with whom educated gents would care to spend much time...
NONFICTION: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames Coming into the Country, John McPhee Delmore Schwartz, James Atlas The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr Best Sellers...
NONFICTION: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni The River Congo, Peter Forbath
NONFICTION: The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni∙Ring, Jonathan Yardley∙The River Congo, Peter Forbath
...Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr...