About the Author:
A highly-recognized voice talent, Martin Jarvis, the reader, was named by the British Spoken Word Association as the Reader of the Year in 1996. He is a professional actor and recently appeared in the film, Titanic, and is the voice on The Audio Partners' publications of A Night to Remember, Great Expectations, and The Third Man.
From AudioFile:
When it comes to love, some listeners may prefer the frank and practical to the romantic and illusory. Cut the coy stuff! What about the nitty-gritty? The ARS AMATORIA is THE classic how-to manual (in verse!) for sexual intrigue from the Roman poet Ovid. His best advice: If you want to be loved, be loveable. Otherwise, it's difficult to discern when he's giving serious advice and when he's poking fun at himself, his world and the mores of his age. Ovid knows the delights of sex, but he never leers. Jarvis manages to give the translation the grace it sometimes lacks. We hear the delightfully decadent patrician in all his humorsÐsatiric, lyrical, sly, urbane. He's the perfect voice for the perfect Machiavelli of dalliance. Y.R. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.