About the book: year / Apuleius' novel - "Metamorphoses, or the Golden Ass" combines the occultism of the era with oriental fantasy. The content of the novel is all kinds of adventures of the donkey into which the hero of the novel Lucius was turned in the sorceress’s house. The most striking part of this novel is a large short story - a fairy tale about the love of Cupid and Psyche - about how the god of love Cupid himself fell in love with the mortal beauty Psyche.