Reynard the Fox: After the German Version of Goethe (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Reynard the Fox: After the German Version of Goethe

To enter on a discussion regarding the origin and authorship of the poem Reineke de Fos, is to embark on a troubled sea of controversy where land soon disappears.

I purpose therefore in this preface to state but a few leading and well established facts bearing on the extreme antiquity and world wide interest attaching to the work, and show ing what an important place it held for many centuries in the eyes of gentle and simple throughout Europe.

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