Famous Last Words: Fond Farewells, Deathbed Diatribes, and Exclamations Upon Expiration

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作者Ray Robinson

出版社Workman Publishing;

ISBN9780761126096

出版时间2003

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页数160页

货号TB56

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品相描述：九五品: Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Workman Publishing; First Edition edition (25 July 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0761126090
ISBN-13: 978-0761126096
Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 1.8 x 16 cm

商品描述: A collection of the notable last recorded words of the dying, Famous Last Words is, unexpectedly, bursting with life, hope, wisdom, and often laughter. Here are writers, philosophers, athletes, gangsters, kings, queens, movie stars, and politicians, in all sorts of moods and states of preparedness. Some merely want to say goodbye to loved ones, others want to create a legacy. And some are caught completely off guard, like Civil War general John Sedgwick, answering his troops' urgings to take cover: They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-. There's the droll: It's the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go (Oscar Wilde); the blase How are the Mets doing today? (Moe Berg); the cranky: It wasn't worth it (Louis B. Mayer); the wistful: That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted (Lou Costello); the optimistic: I shall hear in heaven! (Beethoven); and the overly optimistic: I've never felt better (Douglas Fairbanks). Ultimately, every one of these parting statements is a reflection of the person behind it. Each is accompanied by a mini-biography of the speaker, including the context of death, from the golf course (That was a great game of golf, fellers Bing Crosby) to a favorite armchair (Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough-Karl Marx).