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The golden ass, or, Metamorphoses by Lucius Apuleius, Peter Singer, Ellen Finkelpearl, Anna and Varvara Kendel, William Adlington, Lucio Apuleyo, pixabay is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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“Think of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, throw in generous helpings of humor, sex, and magic, and you might get a rough idea of what The Golden Ass is like.” —Peter Singer Peter Singer and Ellen Finkelpearl breathe new life into Apuleius’s The Golden Ass—a hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest novels—accentuating its remarkable empathy for animals. Conceived at the zenith of the Roman Empire, Apuleius’s The Golden Ass—a bawdy, comic romp centered on a man-turned-animal—is the only ancient work of fiction in Latin that survives in its entirety. In playful, evocative prose, the novel recounts the travails of Lucius, a young man whose insatiable fascination with the occult results in his accidental transformation into an ass. So entrapped, Lucius embarks on a hair-raising and at times outrageous adventure, encountering sadistic thieves who beat him mercilessly and plot to throw him over a cliff; a miller who works his human and animal slaves to death (until his wife, caught in an act of adultery, resorts to magic to bring him down); a noblewoman who fancies him; poverty-stricken merchants and a Roman soldier; and finally, the Egyptian goddess Isis. Peter Singer, the world-renowne

Who reads The golden ass, or, Metamorphoses?

Author

Lucius Apuleius, Peter Singer, Ellen Finkelpearl, Anna and Varvara Kendel, William Adlington, Lucio Apuleyo, pixabay

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631497803

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Classics

Rating

3.88 / 5 (438 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14