Audio Sample
Apuleius
The Golden Ass
Read by David Timson
unabridged
‘In this hapless state I looked myself over and saw that I was now no bird, but an ass…’ In this ancient picaresque adventure, Lucius, an insatiably curious young man, finds himself transformed into a donkey after his fascination with black magic and witchcraft goes awry. While trapped in his new body, he becomes the property of thieves, farmers, cooks, soldiers and priests, and observes the hypocrisy and ineptitude of Imperial Roman society. The Golden Ass is considered the only novel to survive the Roman period, and the earliest novel to survive complete in the Western literary tradition. It is brimming with slapstick humour and sexual escapades, and foreshadows later works by Boccaccio, Rabelais, Cervantes and Chaucer, upon whom it was a direct influence.
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8 CDs
Running Time: 9 h 06 m
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ISBN: 978-1-78198-058-3 Digital ISBN: 978-1-78198-059-0 Cat. no.: NA0272 Download size: 208 MB Edited by: Sarah Butcher Translated by: E.J. Kenney BISAC: FIC004000 Released: August 2017 -
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