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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... Paisley . The famous countenance meant absolutely nothing to McLean , who never read the papers . As for Hess , he just kept saying ; " take me to Paisley . I must see Paisley at once . " He meant , of course , Sir Alan Paisley . The ...
... Paisley . The famous countenance meant absolutely nothing to McLean , who never read the papers . As for Hess , he just kept saying ; " take me to Paisley . I must see Paisley at once . " He meant , of course , Sir Alan Paisley . The ...
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... Paisley waited , but obviously von Ribbentrop had checked , so there was no point pursuing this line of thought . " Then what am I to do ? " Paisley asked . " Here he is on my doorstep . He's already mentioned my name . God knows what ...
... Paisley waited , but obviously von Ribbentrop had checked , so there was no point pursuing this line of thought . " Then what am I to do ? " Paisley asked . " Here he is on my doorstep . He's already mentioned my name . God knows what ...
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... Paisley arrived in uniform . Blue , with excessive ribbons and braid . I disliked him at once . He was arrogant , brisk and dismissive of my past . I was nothing but another courier , so far as Alan Paisley was concerned . A messenger ...
... Paisley arrived in uniform . Blue , with excessive ribbons and braid . I disliked him at once . He was arrogant , brisk and dismissive of my past . I was nothing but another courier , so far as Alan Paisley was concerned . A messenger ...
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