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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... Duke of Windsor was standing - suddenly all alone in a doorway . Smiling like a boy . We bowed and curtsied . But every mind was spinning in the same direction : where was she ? The Duke was pale . But his hair was still the same ...
... Duke of Windsor was standing - suddenly all alone in a doorway . Smiling like a boy . We bowed and curtsied . But every mind was spinning in the same direction : where was she ? The Duke was pale . But his hair was still the same ...
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A Novel Timothy Findley. the Duke of Windsor meant the Bahamas and not Bermuda . He wagged his finger at the steward and the steward mo- tioned the footman forward with wine . Everyone's glass was refilled . The Duke of Windsor turned to ...
A Novel Timothy Findley. the Duke of Windsor meant the Bahamas and not Bermuda . He wagged his finger at the steward and the steward mo- tioned the footman forward with wine . Everyone's glass was refilled . The Duke of Windsor turned to ...
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... Duke of Windsor in the centre of the triptych . " If you do they'll hear you somewhere . Then we'll all be sunk . " The huddled man - the faceless man - said nothing . The Duke looked up at the Prince of Wales . " I'm sorry , " he said ...
... Duke of Windsor in the centre of the triptych . " If you do they'll hear you somewhere . Then we'll all be sunk . " The huddled man - the faceless man - said nothing . The Duke looked up at the Prince of Wales . " I'm sorry , " he said ...
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