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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... waited in my rooms , for nearly twenty hours . And in all that time the bands were marching through the streets and the songs kept rising through the floors and the rockets flew up into the sky obliterating all the ordinary stars with ...
... waited in my rooms , for nearly twenty hours . And in all that time the bands were marching through the streets and the songs kept rising through the floors and the rockets flew up into the sky obliterating all the ordinary stars with ...
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... waited , astounded . Isabella's fingers had tightened on my arm . And I thought of the Marquesa spitting on Ernest's shoes , and I knew de Broca's passion was the same as hers had been . And I knew - and was shaken by the knowing- he ...
... waited , astounded . Isabella's fingers had tightened on my arm . And I thought of the Marquesa spitting on Ernest's shoes , and I knew de Broca's passion was the same as hers had been . And I knew - and was shaken by the knowing- he ...
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... waited . " As to why ... " he said , " . . .I can begin by saying that she betrayed German secrets to the British . " " Begin . . . ? ” I said . " You must lower your voice , Herr Mauberley , " von Rib- bentrop said . " You must lower ...
... waited . " As to why ... " he said , " . . .I can begin by saying that she betrayed German secrets to the British . " " Begin . . . ? ” I said . " You must lower your voice , Herr Mauberley , " von Rib- bentrop said . " You must lower ...
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