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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... Queen , in her cotton apron and pale mauve hat , was seated before a makeshift table eating a crustless sandwich of which a dozen more were piled on a plate . " Have one , " she said . " They really are very nice . " The Queen , though ...
... Queen , in her cotton apron and pale mauve hat , was seated before a makeshift table eating a crustless sandwich of which a dozen more were piled on a plate . " Have one , " she said . " They really are very nice . " The Queen , though ...
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... Queen , and before them both , Queen Ade- laide - the - Grump . . . . " Queen Mary smiled . " She was very bad - tempered , you know . And she would have been your great - great - great - Aunt . I never knew her , but certainly my ...
... Queen , and before them both , Queen Ade- laide - the - Grump . . . . " Queen Mary smiled . " She was very bad - tempered , you know . And she would have been your great - great - great - Aunt . I never knew her , but certainly my ...
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... Queen Mary had made it her business to collect — all of them shrouded , all of them leaning back against the walls , unhung , and some with a single eye exposed to watch them as they passed the Queen and her son — the King and his ...
... Queen Mary had made it her business to collect — all of them shrouded , all of them leaning back against the walls , unhung , and some with a single eye exposed to watch them as they passed the Queen and her son — the King and his ...
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