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The Golden Ass

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Description for The Golden Ass Paperback. Translator(s): Walsh, P. G. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 236.
The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis. Blending romantic adventure, fable, and religious testament, The Golden Ass is one of the truly seminal books of European literature, of intrinsic interest as ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199540556
SKU
V9780199540556
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About Apuleius
P. G. Walsh is Professor Emeritus of Humanity at the University of Glasgow.

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