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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... Reinhardt ? " I said . Not very loud . " Reinhardt ? " There was no reply . I was more afraid than I can say . There were so many fearful images in my mind . The death I had asked for had been so ill - defined I could not make it real ...
... Reinhardt ? " I said . Not very loud . " Reinhardt ? " There was no reply . I was more afraid than I can say . There were so many fearful images in my mind . The death I had asked for had been so ill - defined I could not make it real ...
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... Reinhardt did it by applying pressure to the arteries in my neck . However long I lay there , whether unconscious or asleep , it was long enough for Harry Rein- hardt to make his escape . When I first awoke I was not aware of anything ...
... Reinhardt did it by applying pressure to the arteries in my neck . However long I lay there , whether unconscious or asleep , it was long enough for Harry Rein- hardt to make his escape . When I first awoke I was not aware of anything ...
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... Reinhardt's final act was to get the boy to help him burn the notebooks . All of Mauberley's journals and papers and let- ters , poured into the bathtub and covered with kerosene and set ablaze . It was marvellous to Harry's eyes . The ...
... Reinhardt's final act was to get the boy to help him burn the notebooks . All of Mauberley's journals and papers and let- ters , poured into the bathtub and covered with kerosene and set ablaze . It was marvellous to Harry's eyes . The ...
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