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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... Cascais went armed . It was a precaution against the treason of the times as much as against the intrigues of the house . This was July the 27th - a Saturday and the Villa Cascais , though situated in neutral Portugal , had become a ...
... Cascais went armed . It was a precaution against the treason of the times as much as against the intrigues of the house . This was July the 27th - a Saturday and the Villa Cascais , though situated in neutral Portugal , had become a ...
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... Cascais . Inside its precincts , every kindness - including Doctor Ricardo's generous hos- pitality - had to be weighed against the possibility of frau- dulence . Even the simplest of gestures might contain the seeds of treachery ...
... Cascais . Inside its precincts , every kindness - including Doctor Ricardo's generous hos- pitality - had to be weighed against the possibility of frau- dulence . Even the simplest of gestures might contain the seeds of treachery ...
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... Cascais is west of Lisbon , facing south on the Costa de Roca . The sand on the beaches has a reddish tinge : magenta . The rocks are dangerous . It is not the best place to land from the sea . Nonetheless , a small rubber craft made ...
... Cascais is west of Lisbon , facing south on the Costa de Roca . The sand on the beaches has a reddish tinge : magenta . The rocks are dangerous . It is not the best place to land from the sea . Nonetheless , a small rubber craft made ...
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