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A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively, and raised near the town of Mytilene, they grow to maturity unaware of one another's existence until the mischievous god of love, Eros, creates in them a sudden overpowering desire for one another. A masterpiece among early Greek romances, attracting both high praise and moral disapproval, this work has proved an enduringly fertile source of inspiration for musicians, writers and artists from Henry Fielding to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Maurice Ravel. Longus transforms familiar themes from the romance genre including pirates, dreams, and the supernatural into a virtuoso love story that is rich in insight, humorous and ironical in its treatment of human sexual experience.
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Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Inc., 33oo Clipper Mill Road, Baltimore, Md zrzrr, U.S.A. Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
This translation first published 1956 Unexpurgated translation published 1968
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1968
l\[ade and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyrnan Ltd, London, Fakenham and Reading Set in Monotype Garamond
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CONTENTS Introduction DAPHNIS AND CHLOE, Prologue
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Book One
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Book Two
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Book Three
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Book Four
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