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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... course it rained , and of course there was all the unavoidable buzz of the Abdication and , of course half the people who should have been there weren't . Someone did come , however , who was not expected . I was first aware of his ...
... course it rained , and of course there was all the unavoidable buzz of the Abdication and , of course half the people who should have been there weren't . Someone did come , however , who was not expected . I was first aware of his ...
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... course , if she knew you trusted me then . . .Well . " He drank . So I was to be his emissary . " Am I to mention the cabal ? " I asked . " No , no . Not yet . All that comes later . What we need just now is liaison , Mister Mauberley ...
... course , if she knew you trusted me then . . .Well . " He drank . So I was to be his emissary . " Am I to mention the cabal ? " I asked . " No , no . Not yet . All that comes later . What we need just now is liaison , Mister Mauberley ...
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... course , the crowds outside and the music . " " No , " said the Duke . " Not the crowds and not the music . A sort of buzzing sound . . . " Henderson held his breath and considered what he should say . " Is it possible Your Highness ...
... course , the crowds outside and the music . " " No , " said the Duke . " Not the crowds and not the music . A sort of buzzing sound . . . " Henderson held his breath and considered what he should say . " Is it possible Your Highness ...
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