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The Wooden Shepherdess" is the sequel to "The Fox in the Attic, " and the second volume of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, "The Human Predicament." It opens with Hughes's 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 g...

A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, The Fox in the Attic is the first part of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, The Human Predicament. Hughes's Tolstoyan novel re-creates the traumatized worlds of England and Germany in the aftermath of World War I, and features an extraordinary portrait of Adolph Hitler at the beginning of his career. Its sequel, The Wooden Shepherdess, offers a panoramic depiction of Europe in the 1...