β Scribed by Richard Hughes
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 440 pages
Published 1973
NYRB Classics (2012)
The Human Predicament - 2
Introduction by: Hilary Mantel (2000)
"The Wooden Shepherdess" is the sequel to "The Fox in the Attic", and the second volume of Richard Hughesβs monumental historical fiction, βThe Human Predicament.β It opens with Hughesβs hero Augustine in prohibition era America, where he is a bemused onlooker and an increasingly fascinated participant in a country intoxicated with sex, violence, and booze. In brilliant cinematic style, the book then moves to Germany, where the Nazi Party is gradually gaining in power; to the slums, mining towns, parliamentary back rooms, and great houses of a Britain teetering on the verge of class war; and to the wilds of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The novel ends with a terrifying account of the Night of the Long Knives, as Hitler ruthlessly secures his hold upon Germany.
This new edition of the "The Wooden Shepherdess" concludes with the twelve chapters that Hughes completed of the planned third volume of βThe Human Predicament,β here published for the first time in America.
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