Product Description: A novel featuring Fludd who investigates what happened to Lazarus, after he was raised from the dead. To follow up his search he impersonates a Roman Catholic priest. It is not immediately apparent that he is an impostor and he receives a curiously hostile reception.

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A recreation of London in 1782 dramatically shows how ancient beliefs came into conflict with the growth of science, chronicling the life and death of a huge Irishman who plans to make a fortune through his immense size. 20,000 first printing.