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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... thought to proper food . Way off down the hall , Quinn could hear two people talking . Rudecki , more than likely , nattering with the picket at the top of the stairs . Just two ordinary voices , barely audible . Just two ordinary men ...
... thought to proper food . Way off down the hall , Quinn could hear two people talking . Rudecki , more than likely , nattering with the picket at the top of the stairs . Just two ordinary voices , barely audible . Just two ordinary men ...
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... thought he would . He had thought the good Captain would deny being anti - social . “ Anyway , sir , " he said , " you can still wear the black triangle . It shouldn't clash with your your uniform . ” " I am not a Jew , " Freyberg ...
... thought he would . He had thought the good Captain would deny being anti - social . “ Anyway , sir , " he said , " you can still wear the black triangle . It shouldn't clash with your your uniform . ” " I am not a Jew , " Freyberg ...
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... thought ; death is not death until they put you in the ground . Everything above ground is life . I still have some chances . So long as I can see the ground ... His lips moved . But he was silent . And he thought ; when you die like ...
... thought ; death is not death until they put you in the ground . Everything above ground is life . I still have some chances . So long as I can see the ground ... His lips moved . But he was silent . And he thought ; when you die like ...
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