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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... death " being called for by their leader would be meaningless so far away from Ger- many . The only place for such a death was at home . And home they went ; by the thousands . Nothing , it seemed , could stop them . It was a rout ...
... death " being called for by their leader would be meaningless so far away from Ger- many . The only place for such a death was at home . And home they went ; by the thousands . Nothing , it seemed , could stop them . It was a rout ...
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... death . And when Ezra finally came down the hill , he said it was a fitting death ; " an alpine axe for one who climbed too ” —a phrase that pleased him so much he wrote it down . high ” - And Dorothy did a thing I had never thought she ...
... death . And when Ezra finally came down the hill , he said it was a fitting death ; " an alpine axe for one who climbed too ” —a phrase that pleased him so much he wrote it down . high ” - And Dorothy did a thing I had never thought she ...
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... death have cause . . .I looked at Harry's mouth — his lips— his alligator eyes . . .and those who leap have purpose . I leapt . " I need a death , " I said . A little smile appeared at the corner of his lips . " All right , " he said ...
... death have cause . . .I looked at Harry's mouth — his lips— his alligator eyes . . .and those who leap have purpose . I leapt . " I need a death , " I said . A little smile appeared at the corner of his lips . " All right , " he said ...
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