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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... eyes were misted . The King was quite alarmed . . .until she spoke . " I got the end of Mrs Moore's mustard pot that time , " she said and dabbed at her eyes with a double damask napkin hugely embroidered with the letter G. " Just as I ...
... eyes were misted . The King was quite alarmed . . .until she spoke . " I got the end of Mrs Moore's mustard pot that time , " she said and dabbed at her eyes with a double damask napkin hugely embroidered with the letter G. " Just as I ...
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... eyes , though somewhat dulled with quite legitimate fatigue , were still that magic shade of blue one thinks he's taken out a patent on . Still facing him , we rose . And then , as one who cuts a ribbon , or reveals a painting on a wall ...
... eyes , though somewhat dulled with quite legitimate fatigue , were still that magic shade of blue one thinks he's taken out a patent on . Still facing him , we rose . And then , as one who cuts a ribbon , or reveals a painting on a wall ...
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... eyes , a mouth , a nose and all pulled taut and pinned into place with outsized jewelled ears . I remem- ber the ... eyes to mine . And then she looked at the Duke . The Duke was drowsing , way off past the jasmine in its bowls and the ...
... eyes , a mouth , a nose and all pulled taut and pinned into place with outsized jewelled ears . I remem- ber the ... eyes to mine . And then she looked at the Duke . The Duke was drowsing , way off past the jasmine in its bowls and the ...
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