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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... Oakes had strewn the world with his diggings , from the Klondike to the Congo , from the outback of Australia to the ... Harry Oakes . In a rage , he went to England and there his money was respected . He was able to purchase a baronetcy with ...
... Oakes had strewn the world with his diggings , from the Klondike to the Congo , from the outback of Australia to the ... Harry Oakes . In a rage , he went to England and there his money was respected . He was able to purchase a baronetcy with ...
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A Novel Timothy Findley. Sir Harry Oakes ' neighbours were now alarmed . First , he had sent his children away and then his wife . Then he had fired over half his servants - Mavis Boodle remaining . Next thing people knew , he was living ...
A Novel Timothy Findley. Sir Harry Oakes ' neighbours were now alarmed . First , he had sent his children away and then his wife . Then he had fired over half his servants - Mavis Boodle remaining . Next thing people knew , he was living ...
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... Sir Harry Oakes . Alfred de Marigny was charged with that murder and put on trial , but was acquitted in the fall of 1943 , and upon his acquittal , the case was closed . In spite of entreaties from interested parties , the Duke of ...
... Sir Harry Oakes . Alfred de Marigny was charged with that murder and put on trial , but was acquitted in the fall of 1943 , and upon his acquittal , the case was closed . In spite of entreaties from interested parties , the Duke of ...
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