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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... told . " He looked up at Quinn . " By the way - I'm assuming you mean we've only just read half ; not that he's only told us half . " He smiled . And snapped the record in two , handing one of the pieces to Quinn . “ Half isn't good ...
... told . " He looked up at Quinn . " By the way - I'm assuming you mean we've only just read half ; not that he's only told us half . " He smiled . And snapped the record in two , handing one of the pieces to Quinn . “ Half isn't good ...
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... told the story of her life and left out China . I was very hurt . Then the Duke told the story of his life and left out having abdicated . Wallis was very pleased . None- theless these stories told the temper of the times and the motto ...
... told the story of her life and left out China . I was very hurt . Then the Duke told the story of his life and left out having abdicated . Wallis was very pleased . None- theless these stories told the temper of the times and the motto ...
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... told there was a gunshot . " " Yes . There was . One of our men . Dreadful fright it gave him . Thought he'd killed ... told the same story . Only if everyone treated it as a joke . And Hess had never told a joke in his life . Or laughed ...
... told there was a gunshot . " " Yes . There was . One of our men . Dreadful fright it gave him . Thought he'd killed ... told the same story . Only if everyone treated it as a joke . And Hess had never told a joke in his life . Or laughed ...
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