Modern Classics Famous Last WordsIn 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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... night had been the Insurgent's H.Q. After we left Valencia that night , it was necessary to return a week later in order to retire from Spain on board a ship and run the block- ade to Palma . It was there , on Mallorca , that I read in ...
... night had been the Insurgent's H.Q. After we left Valencia that night , it was necessary to return a week later in order to retire from Spain on board a ship and run the block- ade to Palma . It was there , on Mallorca , that I read in ...
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... night after night , I could not sleep - or thought I did not sleep . The geckoes mingled with my dreams and I watched them struggling up the walls and creeping out across the ceiling - shadows only , beyond the netting — and every time ...
... night after night , I could not sleep - or thought I did not sleep . The geckoes mingled with my dreams and I watched them struggling up the walls and creeping out across the ceiling - shadows only , beyond the netting — and every time ...
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... NIGHT , June 17th was one of the hottest nights that season . Everyone said so , and I believed them . Mavis Boodle , leaving that evening to walk back into town - none of Sir Harry's servants slept in the house - got only halfway down ...
... NIGHT , June 17th was one of the hottest nights that season . Everyone said so , and I believed them . Mavis Boodle , leaving that evening to walk back into town - none of Sir Harry's servants slept in the house - got only halfway down ...
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