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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... Duchess of Windsor . As guests , the Duke and Duchess were hardly a pleasure to entertain . To begin with , they could not go anywhere unnoticed and therefore had to remain within the confines of the villa . The Villa itself was the ...
... Duchess of Windsor . As guests , the Duke and Duchess were hardly a pleasure to entertain . To begin with , they could not go anywhere unnoticed and therefore had to remain within the confines of the villa . The Villa itself was the ...
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... Duchess of Windsor had been the house guests of Sir Harry and Lady Oakes , the Islands ' leading citizens . It was not for lack of an official residence the Windsors made their home with strangers . Indeed , the Governor's Mansion had ...
... Duchess of Windsor had been the house guests of Sir Harry and Lady Oakes , the Islands ' leading citizens . It was not for lack of an official residence the Windsors made their home with strangers . Indeed , the Governor's Mansion had ...
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... Duchess of Windsor let her go . Fire , she had surmised , was what awaited them all , though not in hell . And only those who could endure it would be allowed to remain in her retinue . Far in the depths of the Mansion , the lights ...
... Duchess of Windsor let her go . Fire , she had surmised , was what awaited them all , though not in hell . And only those who could endure it would be allowed to remain in her retinue . Far in the depths of the Mansion , the lights ...
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