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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... once , " said Lindbergh . " Maybe once there was a centre - but not any more . Now there's just ... " " If you say ' two halves ' once more I'll hit you . " Allenby tried to laugh . The laughter wouldn't quite come , but Lindbergh had ...
... once , " said Lindbergh . " Maybe once there was a centre - but not any more . Now there's just ... " " If you say ' two halves ' once more I'll hit you . " Allenby tried to laugh . The laughter wouldn't quite come , but Lindbergh had ...
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... once , Mister Mauberley . Once and once only . " I was so unnerved by the tone of voice and the fact he refused to look at my eyes that I turned and looked over my shoulder to make quite sure we were really alone . We were . The words ...
... once , Mister Mauberley . Once and once only . " I was so unnerved by the tone of voice and the fact he refused to look at my eyes that I turned and looked over my shoulder to make quite sure we were really alone . We were . The words ...
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... Once inside the house , my first impression was of silence : then of the emptiness around me , usually filled with the brooding , paranoid presence of Oakes . " Reinhardt ? " I said . Not very loud . " Reinhardt ? " There was no reply ...
... Once inside the house , my first impression was of silence : then of the emptiness around me , usually filled with the brooding , paranoid presence of Oakes . " Reinhardt ? " I said . Not very loud . " Reinhardt ? " There was no reply ...
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