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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... afraid , my friend ? Are you never afraid of what we do ? Of the meaning of what we do and who we are ? " WE WERE IN SPAIN that summer six more weeks , and then again in the autumn two more weeks and a half . Isabella's commission this ...
... afraid , my friend ? Are you never afraid of what we do ? Of the meaning of what we do and who we are ? " WE WERE IN SPAIN that summer six more weeks , and then again in the autumn two more weeks and a half . Isabella's commission this ...
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... afraid . ISABELLA SAT BETWEEN myself and von Ribbentrop . The chef had outdone himself : our meal consisted of salmon ; grouse and pheasant ; marinated onions and oranges ; roast suckling pig ; an aspic of truffles , garnished with ...
... afraid . ISABELLA SAT BETWEEN myself and von Ribbentrop . The chef had outdone himself : our meal consisted of salmon ; grouse and pheasant ; marinated onions and oranges ; roast suckling pig ; an aspic of truffles , garnished with ...
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... afraid and deathly still when he received the news the Windsors had been whisked away from Europe . He stood at attention , just like a man receiving the penalty of death . He had been outside in his garden when von Ribbentrop arrived ...
... afraid and deathly still when he received the news the Windsors had been whisked away from Europe . He stood at attention , just like a man receiving the penalty of death . He had been outside in his garden when von Ribbentrop arrived ...
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