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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... killed him . " Reaching down , she drew her skirt across the bruises on her shins . " And now , in Spain I am constantly thinking of my husband and his death , " she said . “ How they killed him . With their boots . And I am thinking ...
... killed him . " Reaching down , she drew her skirt across the bruises on her shins . " And now , in Spain I am constantly thinking of my husband and his death , " she said . “ How they killed him . With their boots . And I am thinking ...
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... killed , for he was seen to walk through sheets of gunfire unscathed . The Duchess of Windsor disliked him intensely ... kill " . The Duke was prone to the " glorious past " and particularly prone to anything reminding him that once he ...
... killed , for he was seen to walk through sheets of gunfire unscathed . The Duchess of Windsor disliked him intensely ... kill " . The Duke was prone to the " glorious past " and particularly prone to anything reminding him that once he ...
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... kill her ? " " No. You mustn't kill her , " said Mauberley . Not that he didn't want Estrade dead . It was just that he could not ask a child to kill . Not even Hugo , whom he knew would kill in ten seconds flat if paid the right price ...
... kill her ? " " No. You mustn't kill her , " said Mauberley . Not that he didn't want Estrade dead . It was just that he could not ask a child to kill . Not even Hugo , whom he knew would kill in ten seconds flat if paid the right price ...
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