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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... never fell . His suite of rooms had always been the same : third door on the left of the second floor - and across ... never work and never , never politics - the politics being audible enough in the faces of the German and Italian ...
... never fell . His suite of rooms had always been the same : third door on the left of the second floor - and across ... never work and never , never politics - the politics being audible enough in the faces of the German and Italian ...
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... never entered mine be- cause they had no need . Unless they were pushed , of course- as Dmitri had been . In Vienna ... never looked better , never looked happier , never looked more fit . I did not even guess why this should be , though ...
... never entered mine be- cause they had no need . Unless they were pushed , of course- as Dmitri had been . In Vienna ... never looked better , never looked happier , never looked more fit . I did not even guess why this should be , though ...
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... never read the papers . As for Hess , he just kept saying ; " take me to Paisley . I must see Paisley at once . " He meant , of course , Sir Alan Paisley . The farmer thought he meant the town . The constable on duty at Paisley that ...
... never read the papers . As for Hess , he just kept saying ; " take me to Paisley . I must see Paisley at once . " He meant , of course , Sir Alan Paisley . The farmer thought he meant the town . The constable on duty at Paisley that ...
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