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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... stood up . The brocade fell aside . He walked across the room until he stood so close to Mauberley that Mauberley could smell him . Sour - like soup . Then , with a gesture only a child could make and get away with , the boy pinched the ...
... stood up . The brocade fell aside . He walked across the room until he stood so close to Mauberley that Mauberley could smell him . Sour - like soup . Then , with a gesture only a child could make and get away with , the boy pinched the ...
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... stood there , Quinn thought ; Mauberley was here ; he stood right here , like me ; he felt this wax ; he could see the same view ; he could raise the same dust as he crossed the floor . It was a painful thought that all these things ...
... stood there , Quinn thought ; Mauberley was here ; he stood right here , like me ; he felt this wax ; he could see the same view ; he could raise the same dust as he crossed the floor . It was a painful thought that all these things ...
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... stood in orchards watching birds . Very late that night I went outside and stood in the dark with my collar up and I thought : I could walk into Neddy's pond , like Ezra's crazy Chinese poet - embrace the moon and be gone . I could put ...
... stood in orchards watching birds . Very late that night I went outside and stood in the dark with my collar up and I thought : I could walk into Neddy's pond , like Ezra's crazy Chinese poet - embrace the moon and be gone . I could put ...
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