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The Golden Ass

by Apuleius
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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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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Kindle Book

  • Release date: May 28, 1998

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780141904504
  • Release date: May 28, 1998

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780141904504
  • File size: 881 KB
  • Release date: May 28, 1998

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Classic Literature Fiction Mythology

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1350
Text Difficulty:11-12

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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Classic Literature Fiction Mythology