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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 06 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by David Timson. |
| Summary |
'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 humor and sexual escapades, and foreshadows later works by Boccaccio, Rabelais, Cervantes and Chaucer, upon whom it was a direct influence. - |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Mythology, Classical -- Fiction.
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Metamorphosis -- Fiction.
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Magic -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Added Author |
Lindsay, Jack, 1900-1990, translator.
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Goodman, Percival, illustrator.
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Fass, John S. (John Stroble), 1890-1973, book designer, printer.
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Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964, type designer.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781781980590 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1781980594 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11910743 |
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