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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... Wallis and Anthony Biddle looked . " Down where ? " " Over there , by those enormous packing cases . The thin young man in the alpaca suit . " Wallis looked . The thin young man was directing the loading of four wooden crates , two of ...
... Wallis and Anthony Biddle looked . " Down where ? " " Over there , by those enormous packing cases . The thin young man in the alpaca suit . " Wallis looked . The thin young man was directing the loading of four wooden crates , two of ...
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... Wallis - given the circumstance . She winked and curtsied and muttered : " Your Majesty .... " Wallis - whose lifelong episodes of feeling faint could be numbered on one hand - nearly passed out cold on the spot . Elsa knew . And if ...
... Wallis - given the circumstance . She winked and curtsied and muttered : " Your Majesty .... " Wallis - whose lifelong episodes of feeling faint could be numbered on one hand - nearly passed out cold on the spot . Elsa knew . And if ...
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... Wallis and shouted , spitting- " And you damn well know it ! " Wallis did not even blink . " Oh , I think we can , " she said . Mister Howard came in and leaned towards the Duchess . Buzz- buzz . " Yes , ma'am . " Mister Howard left the ...
... Wallis and shouted , spitting- " And you damn well know it ! " Wallis did not even blink . " Oh , I think we can , " she said . Mister Howard came in and leaned towards the Duchess . Buzz- buzz . " Yes , ma'am . " Mister Howard left the ...
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