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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... gone to America . ” " No. " For a moment , he did not move , but stood and stared at Isabella , then at me , and ... gone to live in America ? " " No , Baronessa . I have gone to live in Paris . " “ Ah . . . ' 99 He was lying , and it ...
... gone to America . ” " No. " For a moment , he did not move , but stood and stared at Isabella , then at me , and ... gone to live in America ? " " No , Baronessa . I have gone to live in Paris . " “ Ah . . . ' 99 He was lying , and it ...
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... gone away from all the good and genius I saw before and I am thinking , when I see you a moment ago , that you were throwing down your good words and breaking them below us in the valley . And I ask of you : why have you left from us ...
... gone away from all the good and genius I saw before and I am thinking , when I see you a moment ago , that you were throwing down your good words and breaking them below us in the valley . And I ask of you : why have you left from us ...
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... gone a bit too far in calling him a toad . . . . 99 I waited . " Is it political , then ? " I asked . “ The cabal ? ” Isabella crossed the room and picked up a pair of long white gloves . She was on her way to meet him again . " I shall ...
... gone a bit too far in calling him a toad . . . . 99 I waited . " Is it political , then ? " I asked . “ The cabal ? ” Isabella crossed the room and picked up a pair of long white gloves . She was on her way to meet him again . " I shall ...
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