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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... staring down at the world . Now ; look at all the people staring up . " And then he clambered onto the ledge and - waving at the sky - he leapt down fifteen stories to his death . IN THE POCKET of his father's jacket - hung for many ...
... staring down at the world . Now ; look at all the people staring up . " And then he clambered onto the ledge and - waving at the sky - he leapt down fifteen stories to his death . IN THE POCKET of his father's jacket - hung for many ...
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... staring him straight in the eye . He was wary of this and avoided it at all costs and I thought for certain I had ... stares , Wallis told me - and then we all had a good laugh about it . It was , I explained , a writer's prerequisite to ...
... staring him straight in the eye . He was wary of this and avoided it at all costs and I thought for certain I had ... stares , Wallis told me - and then we all had a good laugh about it . It was , I explained , a writer's prerequisite to ...
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... staring at us all while Ned was buried . My mind was unable to deliver any reason why he should be here in Bedaux's office . I turned to Mademoiselle Liage , only to discover she too was transfixed . With fear . " Would you be so good ...
... staring at us all while Ned was buried . My mind was unable to deliver any reason why he should be here in Bedaux's office . I turned to Mademoiselle Liage , only to discover she too was transfixed . With fear . " Would you be so good ...
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