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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... smell of plaster dust . It was darker here than on the western side , but not so dark as to obscure completely what had so excited the Sergeant . It was the walls . Every single inch of space had been covered with writing : all of it in ...
... smell of plaster dust . It was darker here than on the western side , but not so dark as to obscure completely what had so excited the Sergeant . It was the walls . Every single inch of space had been covered with writing : all of it in ...
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... smell like formaldehyde which Quinn discovered was coming from the room he now called Mauberley's Crypt . Freyberg was standing , blocking the view , in the doorway . Quinn had hoped not to see Captain Freyberg in this particular moment ...
... smell like formaldehyde which Quinn discovered was coming from the room he now called Mauberley's Crypt . Freyberg was standing , blocking the view , in the doorway . Quinn had hoped not to see Captain Freyberg in this particular moment ...
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... smell of freshly fallen snow and the warm green smells from the valley far below . Two worlds : and now the horror was over in both of them . Quinn turned back into the room and went down the hall , think- ing he would get some coffee ...
... smell of freshly fallen snow and the warm green smells from the valley far below . Two worlds : and now the horror was over in both of them . Quinn turned back into the room and went down the hall , think- ing he would get some coffee ...
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