Famous Last Words: A NovelDelacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981 - 396 pages Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul. 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 a scandal and political corruption. |
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Page 93
... Loverso , standing with me on the steps beside the water , said ; " I have read what you have written in the Lon- don Daily Mail . You are right , you know , when you say that we need a new kind of leader - not the leaders we have . I ...
... Loverso , standing with me on the steps beside the water , said ; " I have read what you have written in the Lon- don Daily Mail . You are right , you know , when you say that we need a new kind of leader - not the leaders we have . I ...
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... Loverso offered little to the conversation other than her attention . She watched both myself and Bedaux with her eagle's eyes all through the meal . Côty seemed to be of no real interest to her . And I wondered how we were connected in ...
... Loverso offered little to the conversation other than her attention . She watched both myself and Bedaux with her eagle's eyes all through the meal . Côty seemed to be of no real interest to her . And I wondered how we were connected in ...
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... Loverso's best friend , Giocomo Matteotti was murdered . Matteotti had long been an outspoken opponent of fascist violence and in 1924 he made the mistake of publishing his views in a book called The Fascists Exposed . His murder , of ...
... Loverso's best friend , Giocomo Matteotti was murdered . Matteotti had long been an outspoken opponent of fascist violence and in 1924 he made the mistake of publishing his views in a book called The Fascists Exposed . His murder , of ...
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