The Golden Ass: The Transformations of Lucius - Couverture souple

Apuleius

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374531811 ISBN 13 : 9780374531812

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Synopsis

The story of The Golden Ass is that of Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good birth who encountered many strange adventures while disporting himself along the roads to Thessaly. Not the least of these occurred when Apuleius offended a priestess of the White Goddess, who turned him into an ass. The tale of how Apuleius dealt with this misfortune and eventually resumed human form is conveyed by Robert Graves in modern English that is infused with a bawdy wit and sense of adventure that is "itself a small masterpiece of twentieth-century prose" (Kenneth Rexroth, Saturday Review).

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Lucius Apuleius Platonicus (c. 123/125-c. 180) is remembered most for his bawdy picaresque Latin novel, the Metamorphoses, otherwise known as The Golden Ass.

Robert Graves (1895-1985), born in London, was one of the most talented, colorful, and prolific men of letters in the twentieth century. He is best known for his historical novels, I, Claudius and Claudius the God. He spent much of his life on the island of Majorca.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0374531811
• ISBN 13: 9780374531812
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible