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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... voice was suddenly drowned in burst after burst of machine - gun fire . All the bare , blond heads beyond the windows banged against the glass and fell away from sight . Smears - frozen instantaneously - took their place . Now the ...
... voice was suddenly drowned in burst after burst of machine - gun fire . All the bare , blond heads beyond the windows banged against the glass and fell away from sight . Smears - frozen instantaneously - took their place . Now the ...
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... voice shouted . " Vai ele ! Vai ele ! " The Duke of Windsor was leaning back against the table . " O assassino ! " Whose voice was that ? Where was he now ? He took the lighter from his pocket , fumbling with it , failing to make it ...
... voice shouted . " Vai ele ! Vai ele ! " The Duke of Windsor was leaning back against the table . " O assassino ! " Whose voice was that ? Where was he now ? He took the lighter from his pocket , fumbling with it , failing to make it ...
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... voice he was hearing was the voice he wanted to hear . " You have the Oakes ' residence , " I said , " and this is H.S. Mauberley speaking . Hello . " " You've been waiting for a message , " said the voice at the other end , at last ...
... voice he was hearing was the voice he wanted to hear . " You have the Oakes ' residence , " I said , " and this is H.S. Mauberley speaking . Hello . " " You've been waiting for a message , " said the voice at the other end , at last ...
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