Modern Classics Famous Last WordsPenguin Canada, 28 juin 2005 - 392 pages In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament—the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in scandal and political corruption. The exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor, von Ribbentrop, Hitler, Charles Lindbergh, Sir Harry Oakes—all play sinister parts in an elaborate scheme to secure world domination. |
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... Lindbergh and a dozen others sat on a terrace continuing their tea while chil- dren played with a dog on the grass and a gardener wheeled the deadheads from some roses past their prime towards a compost heap . Budleia bloomed - all blue ...
... Lindbergh and a dozen others sat on a terrace continuing their tea while chil- dren played with a dog on the grass and a gardener wheeled the deadheads from some roses past their prime towards a compost heap . Budleia bloomed - all blue ...
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... Lindbergh once described America as having the bloodiest form of government on earth , because it indulged and encouraged people's lust for violence by tolerating freedom of the press . He called this form of government “ degenerate ...
... Lindbergh once described America as having the bloodiest form of government on earth , because it indulged and encouraged people's lust for violence by tolerating freedom of the press . He called this form of government “ degenerate ...
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Timothy Findley. Lindbergh didn't move . " One day , Gus . I pray God ! " And Allenby was gone . Finally , Lindbergh sat down . But not on the bench provided . He sat on the grass and stared at the pond . For an hour . Till dark when the ...
Timothy Findley. Lindbergh didn't move . " One day , Gus . I pray God ! " And Allenby was gone . Finally , Lindbergh sat down . But not on the bench provided . He sat on the grass and stared at the pond . For an hour . Till dark when the ...
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