<i>The Wooden Shepherdess</i> is the sequel to <i>The Fox in the Attic</i>, and the second volume of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, &quot;The Human Predicament.&quot; 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 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.<br><br>This new edition of the <i>The Wooden Shepherdess</i> concludes with the twelve chapters that Hughes completed of the planned third volume of &quot;The Human Predicament,&quot; here published for the first time in America.