Towards the end of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust the protagonist Tony Last is trapped in the jungle…
Mr. Todd insists on Dickens, and Waugh’s related story is The Man Who Liked Dickens. The Kipling, Conrad and Fielding combinations do not identify that repeated-reading…
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Towards the end of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust the protagonist Tony Last is
trapped in the jungle by the calculating crazy Mr. Todd who forces him to read and reread
the novels of a particular author. Waugh has also written a short story dealing with Tony’s
singular experience in the jungle. Who is the novelist referred to and what is the title of
the short story ?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer C
Mr. Todd insists on Dickens, and Waugh’s related story is The Man Who Liked Dickens. The Kipling, Conrad and Fielding combinations do not identify that repeated-reading captivity.
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