Mr. Fox, Joseph Jacobs
Mr. Fox, Joseph Jacobs
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Mr. Fox

Author: Joseph Jacobs

Narrator: Anastasia Bertollo

Unabridged: 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2015


Synopsis

Fairytale hero invariably enters into a combat against evil, not forgiving his enemies. A fairytale is never limited to censure. It is easy to say - "This is bad", but you teach how to make it "good"! And the power of the fairy tale is that it invariably shows: when you sow good - you'll reap happiness; when you sow wind - you'll reap whirlwind! Mr. Fox is on a par with such stories as "The White Dove", "Bluebeard" and "Fitcher's Bird". This fairy tale tells the story of a noble but cruel man possessed by lust for murder o young girls or wives, which were too curious. The culmination of these tales is expressed in attempts of the heroine to avoid the fate of her predecessors. In the tale Mr. Fox Lady Mary becomes a witness of the case when her future husband drags a young rich girl by force in the castle and kills her. She also has found a room full of blood and female corpses. The next day she accuses the groom of murders, presenting the strong evidence - the chopped arm of yesterday victim...

About Joseph Jacobs

Joseph Jacobs, (1854–1916) was an Australian-born English folklore scholar, one of the most popular nineteenth-century adapters of children’s fairy tales. He was also a historian of pre-expulsion English Jewry, a historian of Jewish culture, and a literary scholar.


Reviews

Goodreads review by JimZ

Barbara Comyns does it again. 😊 What a pleasant way to spend several hours. One of those rare novels for me in which I did not want it to end. After I finished, I was thinking that although I would rhapsodize about the novel, hoping GR folks would consider adding it to their TBR list, I knew, or so I......more

Goodreads review by Christy

'How could people think they were lords of creation when they were so hideous and miserable and wherever they went they made ugliness and called it 'progress' and 'civilization'. I thought perhaps people are an acquired taste like olives'. What a short, quirky book that captures everyday life in Lond......more

A gem of a novel - Mr Fox is very much in the style of one of Comyns’ earlier novels, Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (1950), a book that made my ‘best of’ list back in 2017. Like ‘Spoons’, Mr Fox features a rather childlike young woman who relates her story in an unassuming, conversational style. A......more