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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... walk out into the lobby and leave it all behind us on a giant movie screen . With the music playing and everyone applauding . . .I'd like that . I really would . " Freyberg squeezed the captive handkerchief tight between his palms and ...
... walk out into the lobby and leave it all behind us on a giant movie screen . With the music playing and everyone applauding . . .I'd like that . I really would . " Freyberg squeezed the captive handkerchief tight between his palms and ...
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... walk with him across the lawns at Nauly , in Kent . “ There's something I want to say , " said Lindbergh . " Alone . " It was as if they had wandered into a verse of Victorian poetry , illustrated by Tenniel . Civilized by seven ...
... walk with him across the lawns at Nauly , in Kent . “ There's something I want to say , " said Lindbergh . " Alone . " It was as if they had wandered into a verse of Victorian poetry , illustrated by Tenniel . Civilized by seven ...
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... walk towards the fiery awnings , holding out his hands to the flames as if they were salvation . The sight of him drew her at once to her feet , and the Duchess went running , galvanized by his image , limping and not knowing why . She ...
... walk towards the fiery awnings , holding out his hands to the flames as if they were salvation . The sight of him drew her at once to her feet , and the Duchess went running , galvanized by his image , limping and not knowing why . She ...
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