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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... Captain Freyberg was staring out the window and the music on the gramophone was Schubert . Obviously , Frey- berg did not hear the Lieutenant enter , so Quinn was able to watch him for a moment . He had never seen the captain look so ...
... Captain Freyberg was staring out the window and the music on the gramophone was Schubert . Obviously , Frey- berg did not hear the Lieutenant enter , so Quinn was able to watch him for a moment . He had never seen the captain look so ...
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... captain said . “ I have something I want to show you . ' Quinn stood back . Captain Freyberg was saying something into the Crypt— something to one of the soldiers there which Quinn could not quite hear ; though he quite distinctly heard ...
... captain said . “ I have something I want to show you . ' Quinn stood back . Captain Freyberg was saying something into the Crypt— something to one of the soldiers there which Quinn could not quite hear ; though he quite distinctly heard ...
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... Captain Freyberg's attitude towards the Nazis was a matter of concern . " We are leaving , " said Freyberg to Quinn , " for no better reason than the fact the Russians have occupied Vienna . ” " So ? " " So we have a new enemy ...
... Captain Freyberg's attitude towards the Nazis was a matter of concern . " We are leaving , " said Freyberg to Quinn , " for no better reason than the fact the Russians have occupied Vienna . ” " So ? " " So we have a new enemy ...
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