The Wooden Shepherdess (The Human Predicament Volume Two)

Richard Hughes

ISBN 10: 0701119462 / ISBN 13: 9780701119461

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1973

About this Item

1st UK printing 1973. Hardback. 20x14cm. xi+389 pages. FRONT END PAPER HAS BEEN REMOVED. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has edge wear. Front flap is not price-clipped : £2.75. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref d39.1.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wooden Shepherdess (The Human Predicament Volume Two)
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701119462
• ISBN 13: 9780701119461
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jacket design by John Ward
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st impression
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

This historical novel follows the fortunes of Augustine through the inter-war years and also charts Hitler's rise to power as he recovers from the 1923 Munich putsch.

About the Author

Richard Hughes (1900-1976) was born in Surrey, England, but his ancestors came from Wales and he considered himself a Welshman. After an early childhood marked by the deaths of two older siblings and his father (his mother then went to work as a magazine journalist), Hughes attended boarding school and, with every expectation of being sent to fight in the First World War, enrolled in the military. Armistice was declared, however, before he could see active service, and Hughes was free to go to Oxford, where he became a star on the university literary scene, with a book of poems in print and a play produced in the West End by the time he graduated in 1922. Hughes’s first novel, A High Wind in Jamaica, came out in 1928 and was a best seller in the United Kingdom and America. In Hazard followed ten years later. Hughes also wrote stories for children and radio plays, but his final major undertaking was the “The Human Predicament”, an ambitious amalgamation of fact and fiction that would track the German and English branches of a single family into the disaster of the Second World War while offering a dramatic depiction of Hitler’s rise to power. The work was planned as a trilogy, but remained incomplete at the time of Hughes’s death. The first volume, The Fox in the Attic, appeared in 1960, to great critical acclaim; volume two, The Wooden Shepherdess, was published in 1973. All of Hughes’s completed novels are available fromNYRB Classics.

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