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This is an exclusive picaresque novel and the only Latin fiction that survived from antiquity. It avers the story of Lucius who suffers and humiliated for his evil deeds and becomes a donkey. It's a remarkable piece of fiction that encapsulates romantic ventures and religious authentication. The book has story within the stories that entangles reader till its end. Interesting!

"The Golden Asse" by Apuleius (translated by active 1566 William Adlington). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

A fantastic novel combining the marvelous and the realistic, the Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass shows the narrative ability of Apuleius of Madaura (125-180 AD), who knew how to transform the magical adventure of its protagonist, the curious Lucio, into An extensive story of surprising rhythm and color that combines the fictional outline of the traveling adventures with the horror tales and the stories about female deceits. Satire and irony are combined with humor in the grotesque perspective of the ass, observer and martyr of a social reality revealed in his human sordidness. The comic pathos of this event with a happy ending, together with the grace of the interspersed stories (such as the famous one of Cupid and Psyche), gives the work a singular literary appeal.

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"The Golden Ass" or "The Metamorphoses" is the only Latin novel by Apuleius to survive in its entirety. Adapted from an earlier Greek story, "The Golden Ass" tells of the adventures of Lucius, a young man who is obsessed with magic. In attempting to perform a spell, Lucius inadvertently transforms himself into an ass. His long and arduous journey is ornately illustrated by Apuleius' witty, imaginative, and often explicit language, in a series of subplots that carry the reader through to Lucius' salvation by the goddess Isis.

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This is an exclusive picaresque novel and the only Latin fiction that survived from antiquity. It avers the story of Lucius who suffers and humiliated for his evil deeds and becomes a donkey. It's a remarkable piece of fiction that encapsulates romantic ventures and religious authentication. The book has story within the stories that entangles reader till its end. Interesting!

The Golden Ass (Asinus Aureus) or Metamorphoses is the only Latin novel that has survived in its entirety. It is an imaginative, irreverent, and amusing work that relates the ludicrous adventures of one Lucius, who experiments with magic and is accidentally turned into an ass. In this guise he hears and sees many unusual things, until escaping from his predicament in a rather unexpected way. Within this frame story are found many digressions, the longest among them being the well-known tale of Cupid and Psyche. Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.