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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... Sir Harry and Lady Oakes . It was here that Wallis and the Duke had stayed while awaiting completion of the renovations at Government House . But Westbourne itself was awful - and more than merely ugly . It was grace- less and cluttered ...
... Sir Harry and Lady Oakes . It was here that Wallis and the Duke had stayed while awaiting completion of the renovations at Government House . But Westbourne itself was awful - and more than merely ugly . It was grace- less and cluttered ...
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... Oakes himself , although a Canadian citizen , was an American by birth - from the state of Maine . ( The Duchess ... Harry Oakes . In a rage , he went to England and there his money was respected . He was able to purchase a baronetcy with ...
... Oakes himself , although a Canadian citizen , was an American by birth - from the state of Maine . ( The Duchess ... Harry Oakes . In a rage , he went to England and there his money was respected . He was able to purchase a baronetcy with ...
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... Sir Harry Oakes has arrived . " " We gathered that , ” said Elsa . I , MEANWHILE , HAD BEEN LEFT on the drive not knowing which way to turn or what to do . Sir Harry's behaviour had gone so far beyond the pale already . Sydney was ...
... Sir Harry Oakes has arrived . " " We gathered that , ” said Elsa . I , MEANWHILE , HAD BEEN LEFT on the drive not knowing which way to turn or what to do . Sir Harry's behaviour had gone so far beyond the pale already . Sydney was ...
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