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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... looked at the walls . “ Does your heart go out to me , Lieutenant , the way it does to all these others ? " " That isn't fair , sir . And you know it . I never said my heart went out to anyone . You did . " Freyberg looked at Quinn and ...
... looked at the walls . “ Does your heart go out to me , Lieutenant , the way it does to all these others ? " " That isn't fair , sir . And you know it . I never said my heart went out to anyone . You did . " Freyberg looked at Quinn and ...
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... looked very hard at me . So hard I wanted desperately to look away . But I refused . I admired this young man . I had read his poetry and I thought very highly of it . How could I look away , no matter what he said . Ernest had not looked ...
... looked very hard at me . So hard I wanted desperately to look away . But I refused . I admired this young man . I had read his poetry and I thought very highly of it . How could I look away , no matter what he said . Ernest had not looked ...
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... looked at the other faces around the table , hoping one of them would speak . None of them did . Everyone sat stony still in his place , while the smoke from the Duke's cigarette curled upward through the candlelight above the peonies ...
... looked at the other faces around the table , hoping one of them would speak . None of them did . Everyone sat stony still in his place , while the smoke from the Duke's cigarette curled upward through the candlelight above the peonies ...
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