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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... words about which he was paranoid . So when Quinn thought of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley , it wasn't good enough simply to say " he was one of them " . It didn't help Quinn understand how Mauberley , whose greatest gift had been an emphatic ...
... words about which he was paranoid . So when Quinn thought of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley , it wasn't good enough simply to say " he was one of them " . It didn't help Quinn understand how Mauberley , whose greatest gift had been an emphatic ...
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... words forever . Yet even in spite of terror - absolute clarity . So after years of silence , Mauberley was a writer at the last . And here was his book - his testament entirely made on walls . Three 1936 O bright Apollo ... What god ...
... words forever . Yet even in spite of terror - absolute clarity . So after years of silence , Mauberley was a writer at the last . And here was his book - his testament entirely made on walls . Three 1936 O bright Apollo ... What god ...
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... words came out in single file , each word very nicely rounded off before the next word began : no slurring only elocution . It was the syntax that suffered . " Breakfast " was a red , nameless wine offered up in coffee tins and a ...
... words came out in single file , each word very nicely rounded off before the next word began : no slurring only elocution . It was the syntax that suffered . " Breakfast " was a red , nameless wine offered up in coffee tins and a ...
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