Title: The golden ass of Lucius Apuleius
Description: Lucius Apuleius, a young nobleman fascinated by magic, accidentally turns himself into an ass and then sets out on a journey that reveals to him the conditions of peasants and slaves in and around Thessaly and leads him to find redemption as a follower of Isis and Osiris.
Subjects: Magic, Social classes, Metamorphosis, Classical Mythology, Fiction, Classical mythology, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Magic, fiction