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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Timothy Findley. Herr Kachelmayer was standing in his blanket , right in the middle of the empty lobby , looking up at him . Smiling . " It is so good to have you come back , ” he said . " Thankyou ... standing in his blanket, right in ...
Timothy Findley. Herr Kachelmayer was standing in his blanket , right in the middle of the empty lobby , looking up at him . Smiling . " It is so good to have you come back , ” he said . " Thankyou ... standing in his blanket, right in ...
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... standing back against the furthest wall he could find . Freyberg was checking out the bathroom and Quinn could see his lanky shadow passing back and forth across the tiles . Rudecki had been dismissed . Oakley had not yet reappeared ...
... standing back against the furthest wall he could find . Freyberg was checking out the bathroom and Quinn could see his lanky shadow passing back and forth across the tiles . Rudecki had been dismissed . Oakley had not yet reappeared ...
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... standing off to one side , opposite the principal mourners - Diana , Freda Massie , Maximus and the others — when I noticed someone moving behind them . At first I thought it was just someone come late , until I saw by his behaviour he ...
... standing off to one side , opposite the principal mourners - Diana , Freda Massie , Maximus and the others — when I noticed someone moving behind them . At first I thought it was just someone come late , until I saw by his behaviour he ...
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