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    The Golden Ass: Or Metamorphoses

    The Golden Ass by Apuleius;

    Or Metamorphoses

    Series: Penguin Classics;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number Revised
    • Publisher Penguin Classics
    • Date of Publication 1 January 1999
    • Number of Volumes B-format paperback

    • ISBN 9780140435900
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages304 pages
    • Size 198x129x18 mm
    • Weight 236 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    After Lucius is transformed into an ass because of his curiosity and fascination for sex and magic, he suffers a series of trials and humiliations before being transformed back into human shape by the kindness of Isis.

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    Long description:

    Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is initiated into her cult. Apuleius' enchanting story has inspired generations of writers such as Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness and sheer exuberance, and remains the most continuously and accessibly amusing book to have survived from Classical antiquity.

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