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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... knew what he had to say , but had never uttered such words before . " I need a friend , " he said . " I mean someone who will help me . 99 Now , die weisse Ratte smiled . Friend was the word he had waited for . Friend would be certain ...
... knew what he had to say , but had never uttered such words before . " I need a friend , " he said . " I mean someone who will help me . 99 Now , die weisse Ratte smiled . Friend was the word he had waited for . Friend would be certain ...
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... knew it - the centre of his life . Her wisdom , her advice , her presence were the food on which he fed : feasted whenever the tide of public opinion flowed against them . But now , his back was turned— and what she saw was just his ...
... knew it - the centre of his life . Her wisdom , her advice , her presence were the food on which he fed : feasted whenever the tide of public opinion flowed against them . But now , his back was turned— and what she saw was just his ...
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... knew I had heard the story I was telling , before . Illness - opera- tion - Boston ... And if anyone knew that combination was a lie , it had to be Sir Harry Oakes . By twelve o'clock the other guests had left . Only I remained and the ...
... knew I had heard the story I was telling , before . Illness - opera- tion - Boston ... And if anyone knew that combination was a lie , it had to be Sir Harry Oakes . By twelve o'clock the other guests had left . Only I remained and the ...
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