I found myself reading certain passages out loud. The way Anne Louise Avery retells the story is exceptional. … sit back and let yourself be taken by the paw into Reynard’s world, and enjoy. - Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Country Studies Adding mischievous contemporary twists, she has wonderfully refreshed and revivified the medieval collection and shows how these traditional animal fables, with their large and lively cast of characters and their wicked and seductive protagonist, have lost none of their truth-telling power. - Marina WarnerĪ new/old tale based on meticulous, extensive scholarship, painstaking attention to detail, intimate knowledge of the manifold traditions that have gone into the making, through the ages, of this unfathomable fox and all his works. Anne Louise Avery communicates throughout sheer pleasure in the material and luxuriates in its lexical exuberance. This is marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling and an exciting example of innovative translation. Quite possibly the Book of the Year - .uk Avery deploys a scholar’s fluency with medieval language, literature and religion and a raconteur’s ease with anecdote. Anne Louise Avery presents the full, complicated glory of the silver-tongued predator and his milieu in Reynard the Fox, a tour de force of storytelling and a beautiful object in itself.

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