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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... chairs , a littered desk , some tables and a Recamier couch . The carpets were rolled against the furthest walls and the drapes had all ... chair did not restrain him and he left it several times on journeys to the past 32 TIMOTHY FINDLEY.
... chairs , a littered desk , some tables and a Recamier couch . The carpets were rolled against the furthest walls and the drapes had all ... chair did not restrain him and he left it several times on journeys to the past 32 TIMOTHY FINDLEY.
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... chair ; a writing desk and gramophone . The desk , the chair and the gramophone were all in the centre of the room . On top of the desk there was a pile of records , some of them chipped , some of them cracked , all of them covered with ...
... chair ; a writing desk and gramophone . The desk , the chair and the gramophone were all in the centre of the room . On top of the desk there was a pile of records , some of them chipped , some of them cracked , all of them covered with ...
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... chair in the aura of the lamp . His uniform was new and shiny . The nap was not yet broken down . " Very impressive , " said von Ribbentrop . The uniform creaked like cardboard . " Even though I never was fond of black . " His own ...
... chair in the aura of the lamp . His uniform was new and shiny . The nap was not yet broken down . " Very impressive , " said von Ribbentrop . The uniform creaked like cardboard . " Even though I never was fond of black . " His own ...
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