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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... heard was hoarse with the distance it had journeyed in order to be heard . 4 1 * Dubrovnik : August 17th , 1936 The heat was merciless . The whole of Dubrovnik was turned like the palm of a hand against the sun , squinting through its ...
... heard was hoarse with the distance it had journeyed in order to be heard . 4 1 * Dubrovnik : August 17th , 1936 The heat was merciless . The whole of Dubrovnik was turned like the palm of a hand against the sun , squinting through its ...
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... heard them all through his childhood summers in Vermont , singing down the whole of the Appalachian chain : and he used to try to calculate how long it would take their message to reach from Canada to West Virginia . I am here , they ...
... heard them all through his childhood summers in Vermont , singing down the whole of the Appalachian chain : and he used to try to calculate how long it would take their message to reach from Canada to West Virginia . I am here , they ...
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... heard him go away ; she heard the door being closed ; she heard her maid say " ma'am ? " She waved her hand . She knew . She rose . The buttons must now be hooked on the back of her exquisite dress . She watched herself being closed and ...
... heard him go away ; she heard the door being closed ; she heard her maid say " ma'am ? " She waved her hand . She knew . She rose . The buttons must now be hooked on the back of her exquisite dress . She watched herself being closed and ...
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