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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... heard a noise in the bedroom . Isabella had gone to bed so early - almost as soon as we arrived — and had said to me , " I hate the world at night . It frightens me . The sooner I'm asleep , the better . " And now there was this noise ...
... heard a noise in the bedroom . Isabella had gone to bed so early - almost as soon as we arrived — and had said to me , " I hate the world at night . It frightens me . The sooner I'm asleep , the better . " And now there was this noise ...
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... heard him go away ; she heard the door being closed ; she heard her maid say " ma'am ? " She waved her hand . She knew . She rose . The buttons must now be hooked on the back of her exquisite dress . She watched herself being closed and ...
... heard him go away ; she heard the door being closed ; she heard her maid say " ma'am ? " She waved her hand . She knew . She rose . The buttons must now be hooked on the back of her exquisite dress . She watched herself being closed and ...
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... heard a person actually use the words ha - ha . It made me laugh . Then Wallis laughed . Then everyone . The ice - for a moment - melted . After the thaw , however , Oakes went at it again . " Any of you people seen the big silver yacht ...
... heard a person actually use the words ha - ha . It made me laugh . Then Wallis laughed . Then everyone . The ice - for a moment - melted . After the thaw , however , Oakes went at it again . " Any of you people seen the big silver yacht ...
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