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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... Someone began to sing . A soldier's song . The whole car took it up and doubtless the passengers in other cars as well . When the song was over there were cheers and shouts of : bitte ! bitte ! More . More . Another song was sung and ...
... Someone began to sing . A soldier's song . The whole car took it up and doubtless the passengers in other cars as well . When the song was over there were cheers and shouts of : bitte ! bitte ! More . More . Another song was sung and ...
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... someone cut it with a knife , it would lie there like this- " he used his hands -in halves . Them and us . Nothing ... someone drawn a dreadful , dreadful conclusion ; dead wrong and damaging ? Had someone thought he could really be ...
... someone cut it with a knife , it would lie there like this- " he used his hands -in halves . Them and us . Nothing ... someone drawn a dreadful , dreadful conclusion ; dead wrong and damaging ? Had someone thought he could really be ...
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... someone moving behind them . At first I thought it was just someone come late , until I saw by his behaviour he was not a mourner , but an observer of some other kind . A policeman ? Scotland Yard ? Definitely not a “ friend of the ...
... someone moving behind them . At first I thought it was just someone come late , until I saw by his behaviour he was not a mourner , but an observer of some other kind . A policeman ? Scotland Yard ? Definitely not a “ friend of the ...
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