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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... death on every hand ; though most of the deaths were anonymous and somehow failed to reach you with quite the jolt of Trotsky lying on his table . He looked so helpless , lying there , the whole world party to his agony and the agony of ...
... death on every hand ; though most of the deaths were anonymous and somehow failed to reach you with quite the jolt of Trotsky lying on his table . He looked so helpless , lying there , the whole world party to his agony and the agony of ...
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... death . And when Ezra finally came down the hill , he said it was a fitting death ; “ an alpine axe for one who climbed too high ” —a phrase that pleased him so much he wrote it down . And Dorothy did a thing I had never thought she ...
... death . And when Ezra finally came down the hill , he said it was a fitting death ; “ an alpine axe for one who climbed too high ” —a phrase that pleased him so much he wrote it down . And Dorothy did a thing I had never thought she ...
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... Death that simple — just stop breathing . And what would be the loss ? I had done my best work . Maybe all my work . And lost my voice . My credence . Dear God , I thought , the stars are dark and cold and far away . They give no light ...
... Death that simple — just stop breathing . And what would be the loss ? I had done my best work . Maybe all my work . And lost my voice . My credence . Dear God , I thought , the stars are dark and cold and far away . They give no light ...
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