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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... mind ; as I had been Dmitri's lover in my mind ; and countless others ' since . In my mind . I do know this : it was her audacity that won me . Her ruthless stillness , seated in her place in the lobby of the old Imperial Hotel , with ...
... mind ; as I had been Dmitri's lover in my mind ; and countless others ' since . In my mind . I do know this : it was her audacity that won me . Her ruthless stillness , seated in her place in the lobby of the old Imperial Hotel , with ...
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... mind . I have a dozen note- books filled with his advice . So must nearly all the writers writing now in English : “ stand in the middle of your work ; throw out half of what you've got ; write the way you talk - like a twentieth ...
... mind . I have a dozen note- books filled with his advice . So must nearly all the writers writing now in English : “ stand in the middle of your work ; throw out half of what you've got ; write the way you talk - like a twentieth ...
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... mind . And she had placed her faith in the currency of the human mind , the written word . Her husband had died for the written word , and her children because of it . Nothing he knew of Isabella Loverso was more profoundly moving than ...
... mind . And she had placed her faith in the currency of the human mind , the written word . Her husband had died for the written word , and her children because of it . Nothing he knew of Isabella Loverso was more profoundly moving than ...
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