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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... told , " was suicidio . " Someone had done this terrible thing to themself . And this , I was told , was different than doing " some terrible thing upon the selves of others " -whether with guns or bombs . Thus , suicidio was suddenly ...
... told , " was suicidio . " Someone had done this terrible thing to themself . And this , I was told , was different than doing " some terrible thing upon the selves of others " -whether with guns or bombs . Thus , suicidio was suddenly ...
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... told the story of her life and left out China . I was very hurt . Then the Duke told the story of his life and left out having abdicated . Wallis was very pleased . Nonetheless these stories told the temper of the times and the motto we ...
... told the story of her life and left out China . I was very hurt . Then the Duke told the story of his life and left out having abdicated . Wallis was very pleased . Nonetheless these stories told the temper of the times and the motto we ...
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... told him about us , about Penelope ? " " No. " " Your Excellency , please . This game - this corner — it is stifling ... told her everything . " " I don't understand , " I said . And I didn't . von Ribbentrop then told me about the plot ...
... told him about us , about Penelope ? " " No. " " Your Excellency , please . This game - this corner — it is stifling ... told her everything . " " I don't understand , " I said . And I didn't . von Ribbentrop then told me about the plot ...
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