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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... fingers , jabbing at Mauberley's face with its worried eyes , its pursed and careful lips , its well - known expression of apprehensive disdain . “ You might as well carry a big white flag , my friend . Might as well advertise ...
... fingers , jabbing at Mauberley's face with its worried eyes , its pursed and careful lips , its well - known expression of apprehensive disdain . “ You might as well carry a big white flag , my friend . Might as well advertise ...
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... fingers ( farmer's fingers ) up against his temple , tapping the veins . " All things are a flowing , " he says . " So says Heraclitus . " Heraclitus : for whom all things began with fire . Maybe he sat too long in the sun like Ezra and ...
... fingers ( farmer's fingers ) up against his temple , tapping the veins . " All things are a flowing , " he says . " So says Heraclitus . " Heraclitus : for whom all things began with fire . Maybe he sat too long in the sun like Ezra and ...
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... fingers . But I found no fingers there to kiss . She had made a fist — and the fist was so tight I had to help her force it open . " Thank you , " she said . And when I looked , I could see the enamel over her features had cracked . And ...
... fingers . But I found no fingers there to kiss . She had made a fist — and the fist was so tight I had to help her force it open . " Thank you , " she said . And when I looked , I could see the enamel over her features had cracked . And ...
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