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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... dark he missed her entirely - being unaware she was already feeling her way along the walls towards the dining - room . da The Duke heard the words and the whispers : " tenho medo escuridão ... espalhar - se . ” Three people — four ...
... dark he missed her entirely - being unaware she was already feeling her way along the walls towards the dining - room . da The Duke heard the words and the whispers : " tenho medo escuridão ... espalhar - se . ” Three people — four ...
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... dark . And if I blink again , the floor might disappear . She stared . Aunt Bessie Merryman's toes were tapping down in the shadows under her skirts . All the clocks were ticking . Time is darkness - time is light . You either dance ...
... dark . And if I blink again , the floor might disappear . She stared . Aunt Bessie Merryman's toes were tapping down in the shadows under her skirts . All the clocks were ticking . Time is darkness - time is light . You either dance ...
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... dark — or nearly in the dark - with all those strangers , one of whom might be looking for me ; watching me ; assessing me ... .. and in spite of my apprehension of what the messen- ger might say and what he might expect of me ...
... dark — or nearly in the dark - with all those strangers , one of whom might be looking for me ; watching me ; assessing me ... .. and in spite of my apprehension of what the messen- ger might say and what he might expect of me ...
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