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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... Mauberley's father laid his hand upon his shoulder and took him on a guided tour of all the views . He smoked a cigarette and reminded his son of secret cigarettes they had watched the servants smoking down below in the side yard of the ...
... Mauberley's father laid his hand upon his shoulder and took him on a guided tour of all the views . He smoked a cigarette and reminded his son of secret cigarettes they had watched the servants smoking down below in the side yard of the ...
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... Mauberley that Mauberley could smell him . Sour - like soup . Then , with a gesture only a child could make and get away with , the boy pinched the money , still held up in Mauberley's hand , and squinted at it . Real ; not counterfeit ...
... Mauberley that Mauberley could smell him . Sour - like soup . Then , with a gesture only a child could make and get away with , the boy pinched the money , still held up in Mauberley's hand , and squinted at it . Real ; not counterfeit ...
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... Mauberley's chin with his gloved right hand . He was afraid - though he maintained his poise and silence - Mauberley's ear or nose or even his head might break away , being frozen . Still he had only seen that once and then the victim ...
... Mauberley's chin with his gloved right hand . He was afraid - though he maintained his poise and silence - Mauberley's ear or nose or even his head might break away , being frozen . Still he had only seen that once and then the victim ...
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