Help please: texts for Eng Lit

[senua]

DS is studying a book for Eng Lit. I read it, too, so that we could discuss it together. I mentioned something the other day that he hadn't picked up on so he asked me where it was in the text. How do I find it!?
Is there a website somewhere that will have (a) the full text of the book and (b) a search facility.

What is the book?

Waugh A Handful of Dust

I'm trying to find a mention of Death Duties. As you can imagine, it didn't score highly on a teenager's interest-ometer.

Do you have a Kindle?

You could download the book and use the Kindle search function?

Or get your son to read the book again. :)

No kindle.
If anyone can find it for me, it's about the death duties when Tony inherits the house. If you are feeling keen, you could also find a second mention when mumble mumble mustn't give away spoilers mumble.
[thanks for doing my homework for me emoticon]

I believe you can download "ebooks reader" to read ebooks on devices other than a Kindle.

And here is a free ebook of Heat and Dust to download.

You can then use ctrl f (find) function to find the bit once you are in the book.

Here is a free Amazon ebooks [[
www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000426311 reader]] to download.

Go to Amazon - click on the penguin version of H of Dust - then click 'Search inside this book'. It will take you to the four mentions of death duties in the text, and if you click on them, that will take you to the page. You don't get the whole book, but enough of it to orientate yourself. Great novel.
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Perhaps this is what Senua is hinting at, but it might be worth considering that, in the context Tony's fate, 'death duties' operates as a dark pun. Todd = tod = death. Of course, also part of Waugh's light satire on the travails of running a country pile.

Oooh, a big to smeraldina. That's exactly what I needed.

Thanks for your idea too LittleFrieda but I didn't fancy loading yet another programme on to my poor laptop.

And thanks to Alibaggies, too. I knew about the meaning of Todd because I read the helpful footnotes. Unlike a certain person. [facepalm emoticon]

Tod is also an old name for the fox. There are several fox themes running in the book: the cunning man of the jungle, John Andrew and the hunt, and the Impoverisheds hoping to make money from a silver-fox farm.

Do I get my A* now?

senua - Sorry about my convolulted solution. I realised after postiing it might be quicker to re-read the book.

Ooh, my first mumsnet bouquet! Thank you. No problem. I work in the field of Eng Lit - and amazon search inside facility is a lifesaver when you've left your copy in the wrong place and need a footnote reference. Googlebooks also good in emergencies. Hope the revision goes well....