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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... fire . Mauberley rocked back onto his heels and fell away to- wards one side . His mind was burning : twenty - five years— a quarter century of private thought . Suddenly he flung him- self - like a sack of earth — onto the flames . For ...
... fire . Mauberley rocked back onto his heels and fell away to- wards one side . His mind was burning : twenty - five years— a quarter century of private thought . Suddenly he flung him- self - like a sack of earth — onto the flames . For ...
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... fire . " " No , " said Freyberg . " It's not that simple , much as I'm sure you'd like it to be . In fact , Lieutenant , I'm sure you'd like it very much if everything but what you ... fire . " " Wanted fire - and did not burn this table 55.
... fire . " " No , " said Freyberg . " It's not that simple , much as I'm sure you'd like it to be . In fact , Lieutenant , I'm sure you'd like it very much if everything but what you ... fire . " " Wanted fire - and did not burn this table 55.
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... Fire , " she said , " is the one true terror and the only thing in hell I can't endure . " The Duchess of Windsor let her go . Fire , she had surmised , was what awaited them all , though not in hell . And only those who could endure it ...
... Fire , " she said , " is the one true terror and the only thing in hell I can't endure . " The Duchess of Windsor let her go . Fire , she had surmised , was what awaited them all , though not in hell . And only those who could endure it ...
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