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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... took eight men to lift him up . Mauberley's father took off his jacket , then , and laid it neatly folded on the parapet . “ All these years , eh , Hugh ? ” he said , “ of staring down at the world . Now ; look at all the people staring ...
... took eight men to lift him up . Mauberley's father took off his jacket , then , and laid it neatly folded on the parapet . “ All these years , eh , Hugh ? ” he said , “ of staring down at the world . Now ; look at all the people staring ...
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... took place on foot as we tramped around the city or climbed the nearby hills to stare at the Yellow River and wonder where the ships were going and had been . And on more than one occasion , Dmitri Karas- kavin hired a motorcar and we ...
... took place on foot as we tramped around the city or climbed the nearby hills to stare at the Yellow River and wonder where the ships were going and had been . And on more than one occasion , Dmitri Karas- kavin hired a motorcar and we ...
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... took a good long pull at the drink and settled the glass very quietly in front of him before he dared raise his eyes again . When he did , what he saw was his own apparently severed hands with their perfect fingernails and curious ...
... took a good long pull at the drink and settled the glass very quietly in front of him before he dared raise his eyes again . When he did , what he saw was his own apparently severed hands with their perfect fingernails and curious ...
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