Four Days of Naples

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

"Based on personal interviews and previously secret U.S.government archives,
this well-written account is fascinating."–Library Journal

In September 1943, Naples lay devastated by incessant bombardment from Allied planes.
The city, under an iron occupation by the Germans, was without food. During the bombardment,
the famed scugnizzi–the street boys–of Naples grew increasingly exasperated by the
passiveness of their elders. Known for centuries for their daring, verve, and enterprise, the boys
staged an incredible revolt against the occupying Germans on September 28, 1943. Dragging
furniture into the roadways, they built barricades and shot at the enemy with stolen guns,
inspiring many adults and Italian army deserters to join their ranks. Three days and hundreds
of deaths later, the Germans left the city for good.

Author and novelist Aubrey Menen was in Naples in 1948 and heard the story of those historic
four days first-hand from the scugnizzi themselves. Here he has recreated the battle
–street by street, house by house, of this extraordinarily compelling human drama.

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Aubrey Menen
Narrator: Nadia May
ISBN: 0-7861-0921-1
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Echo of Greece, The

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Echo of Greece, The
Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention, writes the author,
apart from the great men it produced, for it is the prelude to the end of Greece…. The kind of
events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of
unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed
can be to us not only a record of old unhappy far-off things but a blueprint of what may happen
again.

With the clarity and grace for which she is admired, Edith Hamilton writes of Plato and Aristotle,
of Demosthenes and Alexander the Great, of the much-loved playwright Menander, of the Stoics,
and finally of Plutarch. She brings these figures vividly to life, not only placing them in relation to
their own times but also conveying very poignantly their meaning for our world today.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Edith Hamilton
Narrator: Nadia May
ISBN: 0-7861-5283-4
Normal Price: $29.95
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Tales of Beatrix Potter

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

“Nadia May’s dramatization is very good. Peter Rabbit is young and reckless, Squirrel
Nutkin as rude as can be, the cats sound dangerous, and the mice in “The Tailor of Gloucester”well,
they sound just like the most sociable mice I know.”AudioFile

This collection of eighteen of Beatrix Potter’s charming stories about Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin,
Mrs. Tittlemouse, and the others have enchanted children for over a hundred years and will surely do so well
into the future. Beatrix Potter’s tales were often connected with real places, people, or animals, so each story
also includes a brief introductory note about its history.

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) born in Kensington Square, London, England, was raised by governesses and nurses, with little interaction with her parents. Alone in the third floor nursery, she spent her time studying and sketching the small animals that were her closest companions. Her brother Bertram was born six years later and for a time they became inseperable companions. In the summers the Potter rented a house in the Scottish highlands and here the children would spend joyous hours exploring the countryside, gathering plants, insects, rocks and fossils.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Beatrix Potter
Narrator: Nadia May
ISBN: 0-7861-5244-3
Normal Price: $25.95
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Daniel Deronda

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

"Daniel Deronda is a startling and unexpected novel it is a cosmic myth, a world
history, and a morality play."–A. S. Byatt

"Nadia May meets the strenuous demands of Eliot’s narration with easy assurance."–Library Journal

One of the masterpieces of English fiction, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two different
characters as they each come to discover of the truth of their natures. Gwendolen Harleth is the high-spirited
beauty of an impoverished upper-class family. In order to restore their fortunes, she unwittingly traps herself
in an oppressive marriage. Humbled, she turns for solace and guidance to the high-minded Daniel Deronda, an
adopted son of an aristocratic Englishman who is searching for his path in life. But when Deronda rescues a poor
Jewish girl from drowning, he discovers a world of Jewish experience previously unknown to himor to the
Victorian novel. Dismayed by the anti-Semitism around him, the tragedy of the lovely Gwendolen begins
to fade for Deronda. When he finally uncovers the long-hidden secret of his own parentage, he must confront his
true identity and destiny.

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: George Eliot
Narrator: Nadia May
ISBN: 0-7861-1327-8
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