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Lucius Apuleius : The Story of Cupid and Psyche

(1) ' ... I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master of University.... What pleased me most was the masses upon masses of books in his house: among which I saw, tho' of course I couldn't look at it properly, a volume of that glorious new Malory - the one like my "Psyche" you know.' (2) 'The story of "Cupid and Psyche", which Lewis read over Christmas, is one episode in "The Golden Ass" of Apuleius (b.c. AD 114). He read it in "The Story of Cupid and Psyche", translated by William Adlington, Temple Classics (1903)'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis      Print: Book

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