Skip to content

The Fox in the Attic
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

The Fox in the Attic Paperback - 2001

by Hughes, Richard

  • Used

Description

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Used - Good
NZ$14.62
FREE Shipping to USA Standard delivery: 4 to 14 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Better World Books (Nevada, United States)
The BIBLIO Guarantee | Ask Seller a Question

Details

  • Title The Fox in the Attic
  • Author Hughes, Richard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-02-28
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5700643-6
  • ISBN 9780940322295 / 0940322293
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.99 x 4.97 x 0.87 in (20.29 x 12.62 x 2.21 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1920's
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Bildungsromans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99034917
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About Better World Books Nevada, United States

Biblio member since 2010
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Not everyone has access to a book the way you do, which is why Better World Books cares. We have donated millions of books and raised millions of dollars to support literacy, libraries and education. Every Better World Books purchase you make contributes. Oh yeah, great prices, fast delivery, unique titles and a generous return policy - we’ve got that too. Thank you for shopping with us!

Terms of Sale:

Better World Books wants every single one of its customers to be happy with their purchase. If you are not satisfied your purchase or simply find out that it was not the book you were looking for, please e-mail us at: help@betterworldbooks.com. We will get back to you as soon as possible with directions on how to return the book to our warehouse. Please keep in mind that because we deal mostly in used books, any extra components, such as CDs or access codes, are usually not included. CDs: If the book does include a CD, it will be noted in the book's description ("With CD!"). Otherwise, there is no CD included, even if the term is used in the book's title. Access Codes: Unless the book is described as "New," please assume that the book does *not* have an access code.

Browse books from Better World Books

From the publisher

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.

Hilary Mantel is the author of many novels, including Beyond Black and Wolf Hall.

Media reviews

[A] magnificent, authoritative, compassionate, ironic, funny, and tragic book, in which emotional and intellectual developments in private persons are seen to be now parallel to, now conditioned by, economic and political actions.
— The Times Literary Supplement

An impressive and unusual historical novel.
— Michael Holroyd

Hughes does not write with a researcher’s smug wisdom-after-the-event but with an artist’s power of recording the past as if it were the living present…The long passages on the Munich beer-hall putsch of 1923, Hitler’s escape, hiding and capture are a tour de force of dreamlike action.
— Time

[The Fox in the Attic] has many virtues, many strong and compelling moments; it continues Hughes’s particular method of tracing the misapprehensions, confusions, and wrong-headedness of people who are either not able to grasp the complex currents of the world they live in, or are blinded by the obsessions of child mentality or political fanaticism or religion.
— John Crowley, The Boston Review

Citations

  • School Library Journal, 03/01/2000, Page 133

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.

Hilary Mantel is the author of many novels, including Beyond Black and Wolf Hall.

Hang on… we’re fetching the requested page.