Hackett Classics: The Golden Ass : Or, A Book of Changes (Paperback)

from P_S_Patrick

Superficially, this is a silly book, written to entertain the reader with its farce, spectacle, tragedy, myth, and the various digressions into other brief stories with little obvious relevance to the main plot, other than that the author heard them told and wants to recall them for our pleasure....

from andyjb

The oldest book I've read. If it wasn't for the language used and the spellings, you'd be hard put to realise that this book dates from the 2nd Century AD. By turns funny, dark, entertaining and just downright enjoyable this book puts many of today's blockbusters to shame.

from satyridae

I really enjoyed this earliest of novels right up till the end. The preposterous scenes, the ribald stories, and the beautiful Cupid and Psyche story- it's one of those books that made me grin time after time. I'm sure if I were a better Classics scholar it would be an even richer experience, as ...

from

Apuleius' comedic romp is a gentle, breezy tale told through in the 3rd person P.O.V. He manages to touch on many characters, settings, and themes in his work and the component parts all serve to augment the whole. Apuleius is quite a writer, and the old fashioned language rather serves to accent...

from Forthwith

I read this in the Adlington translation and if I was a drug taker (I am not- this is better I would imagine), I would describe this as a trip. As I understand this edition was translated about 1566. Yes, that was the date of the translation. We are told that he used the second century original w...