The Wooden Shepherdess

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SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF
VOLUME ONE OF
THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT THE FOX IN THE ATTIC
' This magnificent, authoritative, compassionate, ironic, funny and tragic book . . . vivid both in the evocation of character and in the unfolding of the action. Even more remarkable is the integration of the imaginary persons of the novel with the real characters of history . . .' The Times Literary Supplement 'An extraordinary creation-extraordinary for its originality of viewpoint, its mixture of the sinister and the frolicsome, its audacity in mingling fictional and historical characters . . . Mr Hughes's reconstruction of this nightmare period, his evocation of fermenting evil, is disturbingly real.'
kenneth allsop
' There are few living writers of whom one would say that they had genius; but somehow it seems the most natural thing in the world to say about Richard Hughes.' goronwy rees
Also by Richard Hughes
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA
'An admirable novel, vivid, exciting, delicate and swift.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF
VOLUME ONE OF
THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT THE FOX IN THE ATTIC
' This magnificent, authoritative, compassionate, ironic, funny and tragic book . . . vivid both in the evocation of character and in the unfolding of the action. Even more remarkable is the integration of the imaginary persons of the novel with the real characters of history . . .' The Times Literary Supplement 'An extraordinary creation-extraordinary for its originality of viewpoint, its mixture of the sinister and the frolicsome, its audacity in mingling fictional and historical characters . . . Mr Hughes's reconstruction of this nightmare period, his evocation of fermenting evil, is disturbingly real.'
kenneth allsop
' There are few living writers of whom one would say that they had genius; but somehow it seems the most natural thing in the world to say about Richard Hughes.' goronwy rees
Also by Richard Hughes
A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA
'An admirable novel, vivid, exciting, delicate and swift. The strangeness is never exaggerated, the descriptions are exact as well as beautiful.' cyril Connolly
' A work of genius It has genius because it sees something that a million people have seen before, but sees it uniquely.'
hugh walpole
' The style is brilliant, the ingenuity of narrative is brilliant, the characterisation is brilliant ' Arnold bennett
IN HAZARD
' Here is the old simplicity, surprise, outrageous humour. But the most outrageous quality is not its humour but its daring-to take the same subject as Conrad in Typhoon it would be foolhardy if it were not triumphantly justified.'
graham greene
' It is a tremendous piece of dramatic, narrative description as thrilling a yarn as any you are likely to pick up . . . magnificent.' desmond macgarthy Vissza