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Copyright © 1973 by Richard Hughes
Introduction copyright © 2000 by Hilary Mantel
All rights reserved.
Reprinted by arrangement with the Estate of Richard Hughes
First Published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus 1973
Cover photograph: Francesca Woodman, detail from McDowell Colony, Summer 1980; courtesy of Betty and George Woodman
Cover design: Katy Homans
The Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:
Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren, 1900–1976.
The wooden shepherdess / by Richard Hughes.
p. cm.
Second vol. in the trilogy The human predicament; the 1st vol. is
The fox in the attic.
ISBN 0-940322-30-7 (paperback)
I. Title.
PR6015.U35 W6 2000
823'.912—dc 21 21 99-34920
ebook ISBN: 978-1-59017-532-3
v1.0
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