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The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: A Guide to Contemporary Livingby Letitia Baldrige, Amy VanderbiltISBN 0385133758 (0-385-13375-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: A Guide to Contemporary Living'Book summary:The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette is the most authoritative book of its kind. Filled with practical advice for every occasion, business and pleasure, this book ensures that all of your social interactions will be handled with grace and confidence.
This classic guide, first published in 1952, has been fully updated to reflect the concerns of the modern reader. The advice that has made Amy Vanderbilt the first name in etiquette remains pertinent today. Here is the final word on buying and using stationery, responding to dinner invitations, hosting a party, and attending religious ceremonies. The chapter of the most enduring popularity is, of course, the one on weddings. From addressing invitations to sending thank you notes, everything a bride needs to plan the perfect wedding is easily accessible.
In addition to the time-honored guidance that has made this book a treasured reference, this updated edition contains information that addresses modern concerns of every kind. Here is advice on answering cellular phone calls in public, behaving courteously at the gym, and speaking at business meetings.
Whether you need to compose an invitation, write a letter of condolence, address your senator, set a dinner table, or buy a gift for a foreign business associate, you will find The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette practical, down-to-earth, and always reliable.
Updated and revised by former White House Staff Coordinator Nancy Tuckerman and respected businesswoman Nancy Dunnan, this trusted book remains the most complete and authoritative guide to living well.
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The Berenstain Bears Forget Their Mannersby Stan Berenstain, Jan BerenstainISBN 0394873335 (0-394-87333-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Book of the Courtierby Castiglione, Baldassare, ConteISBN 0140441921 (0-14-044192-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Courtier'Book summary:[via]The courtier has to imbue with grace his movements, his gestures, his way of doing things and in short, his every action
In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour chiefly discretion, decorum, nonchalance and gracefulness as well as wider questions such as the duties of a good government and the true nature of love. Castigliones narrative power and psychological perception make this guide both an entertaining comedy of manners and a revealing window onto the ideals and preoccupations of the Italian Renaissance at the moment of its greatest splendour.
George Bulls elegant translation captures the variety of tone in Castigliones speakers, from comic interjections to elevated rhetoric. This edition includes an introduction examining Castigliones career in the courts of Urbino and Mantua, a list of the historical characters he portrays and further reading.
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Clifford's Mannersby Norman BridwellISBN 0590442856 (0-590-44285-6)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jeffersonby Judith MartinISBN 0689116527 (0-689-11652-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Communicationby Judith MartinISBN 0517706733 (0-517-70673-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuationby Lynne TrussISBN 1592402038 (1-59240-203-8)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation'Book summary:We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.[via]More editions of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation:
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: ISBN 1592400876 (1-59240-087-6)
Hardcover, Gotham Books - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: ISBN 1861976127 (1-86197-612-7)
Hardcover, Profile Books Ltd - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: ISBN 1592402038 (1-59240-203-8)
Softcover, Gotham Books
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation: ISBN 1592400876 (1-59240-087-6)
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!by Lynne Truss, Bonnie TimmonsISBN 0399244913 (0-399-24491-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughterand better punctuationfrom all who read it.
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Eats, Shoots, and Leavesby Lynne TrussISBN 0786268379 (0-7862-6837-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eats, Shoots, and Leaves'Book summary:A New York Times Bestseller
In 2002 Lynne Truss presented a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a runaway success in the UK, hitting number one on the bestseller lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as "Grammar Book Tops Bestseller List" (BBC News). With over a half million copies in print in England, Truss is ready to rally the troops on this side of the pond with her rousing cry, "Sticklers unite!"
Available only in Core 7. [via]
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The Everything Etiquette Book: Mind Your Manners, With Family and Friends, Announcements and Invitations, Business, Travel, the Internet and Every Other Awkward Situationby Nat SegaloffISBN 1558508074 (1-55850-807-4)
Softcover, Adams Media Corp
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The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorumby Kim Izzo, Ceri MarshISBN 0767910109 (0-7679-1010-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum'Book summary:Good manners will make you fabulous. Good manners will make you sexy. The well-mannered get invited to more dinner parties, see their career aspirations blossom, and have a wider array of friends and eligible suitors. So if you want to become your most fabulous self, read onThe Fabulous Girls Guide to Decorum is your ticket to becoming the girl you want to be.
Authors Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh know first-hand that todays young women require etiquette advice that speaks to their modern sensibilities. Yes, we girls need to know how to write a perfect thank-you note and set a proper tablebut we also need to know how to handle a one-night stand, how to ask for a promotion, what to wear at an art opening, and when a budding romance should move from supper to sex.
With The Fabulous Girls Guide to Decorum, Izzo and Marsh have written the etiquette guide for the new millennium and created the ultimate icon of style for the 21st century: The Fabulous Girl. Shes liberated but chic, impeccably mannered but never a snob, confident but compassionate, full of verve instead of vanity. Shes the epitome of Audrey Hepburn-esque style and savoire faire at the workplace, at a dinner party, and even in the bedroom.
The Fabulous Girls Guide to Decorum addresses all aspects of urban life, including careers, friendships, families, entertaining, socializing, romance, and sex (these days they dont necessarily go hand in hand!) and provides invaluable advice on how to navigate these tricky waters with unfailing grace. From what to wear at a power lunch to how to behave at a film premier, Izzo and Marsh address topics such as:
·Coping with an office backstabber
·Taxi and door-holding protocol on dates
·How to handle an affair with the boss
·Hosting the perfect dinner party
·How to handle fair weather friends
·Protocol for first-night sex
·The 10 things an FG will always have in her handbag
·Saving face when a male buddy has become too attached
Charming, witty and eminently practical, The Fabulous Girls Guide to Decorum is as essential as the little black dress and a must for every young womans bookshelf. [via]More editions of The Fabulous Girl's Guide to Decorum:
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Family Book of Mannersby Hermine Hartley, Al HartleyISBN 1557481520 (1-55748-152-0)
Softcover, Barbour Books
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Galateoby Giovanni Della Casa, Konrad EisenbichlerISBN 0772720061 (0-7727-2006-1)
Softcover, Center for Reformation &
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Goops and How to Be Themby Gelett BurgessISBN 155709392X (1-55709-392-X)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goops and How to Be Them'Book summary:There is a little bit of naughty that lives in us all, and Barbara Ross recognizes this. Ross is the founder of Goops Unlimited, a company on a crusade to bring manners and polite behavior back into the lives of contemporary families. And her latest attempt is the re-release of the humorous book, Goops And How To Be Them, originally printed 100-years-ago!
With wit and whimsy, the characters in Goops And How To Be Them represent the childish tendencies, and immature pranks every human is familiar with. The characters display such taboos as speaking out of turn, and taking things that don't belong to them, but are presented in such a way as to become endearing to the reader. Children learn in relation to the Goops, "While its fun to see them, it's terrible to be them."
Having made an appearance in Webster's Dictionary, Goops are described as "Rude creatures devoid of beauty and grace." And throughout the numerous drawings and verse in Goops And How To Be Them, this concept is perfectly illustrated. But there is a goal in mind, and that is to teach children to recognize impolite behavior and stray from it as much as possible. [via]More editions of Goops and How to Be Them:
Goops: And How to Be Themby Barbara Ross, Gelett BurgessISBN 0897168518 (0-89716-851-8)
Softcover, Elton Wolf Pub
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Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Virtues Both by Precept and Example, With 90 Drawingsby Gelett BurgessISBN 0486222330 (0-486-22233-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantiumby Philippe Aries, Georges Duby, Paul VeyneISBN 0674399757 (0-674-39975-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium'Book summary:First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slavesfrom concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family, the roles of women, chastity and contraception, techniques of childbirth, homosexuality, religion, the meaning of virtue, and the separation of private and public spaces.
The emergence of Christianity in the West and the triumph of Christian morality with its emphasis on abstinence, celibacy, and austerity is startlingly contrasted with the profane and undisciplined private life of the Byzantine Empire. Using illuminating motifs, the authors weave a rich, colorful fabric ornamented with the results of new research and the broad interpretations that only masters of the subject can provide.
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A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval Worldby Georges Duby, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0674400011 (0-674-40001-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World'Book summary:All the mystery, earthiness and romance of the Middle Ages are captured in this panorama of everyday life. The evolving concepts of intimacy are explored--from the semi-obscure eleventh century through the first stirrings of the Renaissance world in the fifteenth century. Color and black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?by Jane Yolen, Pepe Alvarez-Salas, Mark TeagueISBN 0439764041 (0-439-76404-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?'Book summary:The bestselling, award-winning team of Yolen and Teague are back with another playful dinosaur tale--a third full-length picture book about how dinosaurs behave at mealtime.[via]
"¿Qué hace un dinosaurio durante la comida?
¿Eructa, hace ruidos y groserías?
¿Tira el cereal y la taza arroja
y espera que alguien luego la recoja?"
Al igual que los chicos, los dinosaurios tardan en aprender a comportarse en la mesa. Sin embargo, con la ayuda de papá y mamá, estos pequeños dinosaurios llegan a comer todo con una sonrisa y buena disposición. Como en sus libros anteriores, Yolen y Teague recrean la tendencia natural al desorden de los chicos mediante rimas juguetonas y dibujos muy divertidos.More editions of How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?:
How to Be a Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesyby John BridgesISBN 1558535969 (1-55853-596-9)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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How to Behave and Whyby Munro LeafISBN 0789306840 (0-7893-0684-0)
Hardcover, Universe Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Behave and Why'Book summary:It's hard to be good. Especially if you don't really know what "being good" means. Munro Leaf, beloved author of The Story of Ferdinand, decided to try his hand at defining good behavior in his 1946 classic How to Behave and Why. The two biggest questions to ask ourselves in life, he says, are "Are most of the people I know glad that I am here?" and "Am I glad that I am here, myself?" If you want to make good friends and keep them, he says, "You have to be HONEST. You have to be FAIR. You have to be STRONG and You have to be WISE." This strangely charming life primer, illustrated with endearing stick figures, goes on to explain why you have to be honest--how handy it is to be trusted, for instance, when you need to borrow money. And if you lie too much, "We can't believe ourselves or anyone else, because we don't really know what the truth is any more than a penguin and that is a stupid way to live." Specific reasons for not being a "lazy lump" or a liar or a cheat are outlined matter-of-factly, as are basic lessons in how to be well and strong. Originally published for the very young (it has an early-reader format with big type and pictures), Leaf's how-to-be-good guidebook will probably be shared among adults as a back-to-basics inspirational book with the same crossover appeal as Sandol Stoddard Warburg's I Like You. A satisfying reflection of a time when what was right and wrong seemed more black and white. (All ages) --Karin Snelson [via]
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How To Speak Politely and Whyby Munro LeafISBN 0789313529 (0-7893-1352-9)
Hardcover, Random House Distribution childrens
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Exasperated parents (and grandparents) faced with the unpleasant task of dealing with grammatical lapses acquired by their children from (gasp!) their neighbors children will be delighted (and relieved) by this veritable grammar without tears. Teachers will find it an indispensable ally, and even the culprits themselvesthe childrenwill discover that learning to speak politely and correctly isnt such a chore after all. [via]More editions of How To Speak Politely and Why:
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Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0517118297 (0-517-11829-7)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Austen'Book summary:Collected together in one volume, The Complete Novels show the development of Austen as a writer and social commentator. From the early optimism and youthful energy of Northanger Abbey to the quiet and subtle art of Persuasion, this collection reveals the breadth of one of the best loved novelists of all time. [via]
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Jane Austen's Mansfield Parkby Harold BloomISBN 0877549443 (0-87754-944-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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A Little Book of Mannersby Emilie Barnes, Anne Christian Buchanan, Michal SparksISBN 1565076788 (1-56507-678-8)
Hardcover, Harvest House Pub
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Mannersby AlikiISBN 0688045790 (0-688-04579-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manners'Book summary:The wonderful Aliki Brandenberg has written and illustrated more children's books than many kids have read. (She's got 133 listings right here at Amazon.com.) This time she brings us a paperback version of her 1990 hardcover Manners, a cheery, funny dissertation on how and, more important, why to be a polite child.
A combination of hilarious, colorful illustrations, comic-bookish playlets such as "You Are Interrupting Again, Leon," some of what a grown up might call role-playing, and miscellaneous other gems, the book adds up to the best child's handbook on manners since the Goops showed up at the end of the 19th century.
[Offered for ages 4 and up, but useful to any child, family, or k-3 classroom.] [via]
Manners Can Be Funby Munro LeafISBN 0064430537 (0-06-443053-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 1426455348 (1-4264-5534-8)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mansfield Park'Book summary:Mansfield Park is Austen's darkest and most complex novel. In contrast to the confident and vivacious heroines of Emma and Pride and Prejudice, its central character, Fanny Price, is a shy and vulnerable poor relation who finds the courage to stand up for her principles and desires. Fanny comes to live at Mansfield Park, the home of the wealthy Bertram family, and of Fanny's aunt, Lady Bertram. Though the family impresses upon Fanny her inferior status, she finds a friend in Edmund, the younger brother.Mansfield Park explores important issues such as slavery (the source of the Bertrams' wealth), the oppressive nature of idealized femininity, and women's education. This edition sheds light on these and other issues through its insightful introduction and wide-ranging appendices of contemporary documents. [via]
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- Mansfield Park: ISBN 1551110989 (1-55111-098-9)
Softcover, Broadview Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1593081545 (1-59308-154-5)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1595400370 (1-59540-037-0)
Softcover, Authorhouse - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1596880104 (1-59688-010-4)
Softcover, Large Print Book Co - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1853260320 (1-85326-032-0)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1404316620 (1-4043-1662-0)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1421806371 (1-4218-0637-1)
Hardcover, 1st World Library - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1421920239 (1-4219-2023-9)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1592640451 (1-59264-045-1)
Hardcover, Toby Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1576463397 (1-57646-339-7)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1593081065 (1-59308-106-5)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1593083564 (1-59308-356-4)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0141439807 (0-14-143980-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Mansfield Park: ISBN 019280264X (0-19-280264-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0375757813 (0-375-75781-3)
Softcover, Modern Library - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0393967913 (0-393-96791-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0451526295 (0-451-52629-5)
Softcover, Signet Classic - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0486415856 (0-486-41585-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0553212761 (0-553-21276-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0755331478 (0-7553-3147-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0804901317 (0-8049-0131-7)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0521827655 (0-521-82765-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0679412697 (0-679-41269-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0708985041 (0-7089-8504-1)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0809596288 (0-8095-9628-8)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0899662447 (0-89966-244-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0140430164 (0-14-043016-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0140434143 (0-14-043414-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Mansfield Park: ISBN 014077162X (0-14-077162-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0192815261 (0-19-281526-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 019282757X (0-19-282757-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0192833634 (0-19-283363-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0451523237 (0-451-52323-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0451525019 (0-451-52501-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Mansfield Park: ISBN 046087294X (0-460-87294-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0786885246 (0-7868-8524-6)
Softcover, Hyperion Books - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0192510215 (0-19-251021-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0192553364 (0-19-255336-4)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P. - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0330029487 (0-330-02948-7)
Hardcover, Pan Books - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0385487266 (0-385-48726-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0679601945 (0-679-60194-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Mansfield Park: ISBN 0701112336 (0-7011-1233-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus - Mansfield Park: ISBN 8497930673 (84-9793-067-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori - Mansfield Park: ISBN 8401479533 (84-01-47953-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori - Mansfield Park: ISBN 389508459X (3-89508-459-X)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft - Mansfield Park: ISBN 1426455348 (1-4264-5534-8)
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- Mansfield Park: ISBN 1551110989 (1-55111-098-9)
Miss Manners Rescues Civilization : From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissings and Other Lapses in Civilityby Judith MartinISBN 0517701642 (0-517-70164-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harriedby Judith MartinISBN 0609805398 (0-609-80539-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried'Book summary:The world gets more confusing every day, and now even our family life can be unbearably complicated. There's one person who knows how to keep her poise in any social situation, and, fortunately for the rest of us, she has condensed her household wisdom into Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility. Including questions from her column's readers, her delicately witty answers, and original essays on topics like "Child Rearing" and "Sabotaging Festivity" (one of these is a good thing, the other bad), the Guide is well-organized enough to use as a reference but also entertaining enough to browse on the way to grandma's house.
Miss Manners' style navigates the passage between refined and precious with ease, and is consistently endearing. She has correctly divined that the only way modern Americans will pay attention to etiquette advice is to couch it in gently humorous language, yet her seriousness pervades each sentence. Her advice on subjects ranging from resolving family feuds to surviving reunions to paying relatives for professional services is straightforward, unambiguous, and as pleasant as a flawless tea party. If you have a family, consider Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility your instruction manual. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Inc - Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried: ISBN 0609805398 (0-609-80539-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried: ISBN 0517701650 (0-517-70165-0)
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Northanger Abbeyby Jane Austen, Marilyn ButlerISBN 0141439793 (0-14-143979-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey'Book summary:Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death--well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the novelistic excesses of her day made popular in such 18th-century Gothic potboilers as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers all figure into Northanger Abbey, but with a decidedly satirical twist. Consider Austen's introduction of her heroine: we are told on the very first page that "no one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine." The author goes on to explain that Miss Morland's father is a clergyman with "a considerable independence, besides two good livings--and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters." Furthermore, her mother does not die giving birth to her, and Catherine herself, far from engaging in "the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush" vastly prefers playing cricket with her brothers to any girlish pastimes.
Catherine grows up to be a passably pretty girl and is invited to spend a few weeks in Bath with a family friend. While there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, who invite her to visit their family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Austen amuses herself and us as Catherine, a great reader of Gothic romances, allows her imagination to run wild, finding dreadful portents in the most wonderfully prosaic events. But Austen is after something more than mere parody; she uses her rapier wit to mock not only the essential silliness of "horrid" novels, but to expose the even more horrid workings of polite society, for nothing Catherine imagines could possibly rival the hypocrisy she experiences at the hands of her supposed friends. In many respects Northanger Abbey is the most lighthearted of Jane Austen's novels, yet at its core is a serious, unsentimental commentary on love and marriage, 19th-century British style. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Softcover, Penguin USA - Northanger Abbey: ISBN 0192553437 (0-19-255343-7)
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Northanger Abbey and Persuasionby Jane AustenISBN 0192547054 (0-19-254705-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey and Persuasion'Book summary:This is part of a complete set of Jane Austen's novels collating the editions published during the author's lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts. The books are illustrated with 19th century plates and incorporate revisions by experts in the light of subsequent research. The set consists of "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Mansfield Park", "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion", "Emma" and "Minor Works". [via]
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Jane Austen, John N. DavieISBN 0192815253 (0-19-281525-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon'Book summary:This is the only edition of these four Jane Austen titles in one volume. "Northanger Abbey" is the earliest comedy, making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel. It combines literary burlesque with a tale of female enlightenment. "Lady Susan" and "The Watsons" were early compositions, reflecting many of the qualities of "Northanger Abbey". "Sanditon" too is an incomplete novel written late in Austen's life, and indicating a new depth of comic insight. [via]
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Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditonby Claude Rawson, Jane Austen, John DavieISBN 0192833685 (0-19-283368-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, the Watsons, Sanditon: Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon'Book summary:Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies of female enlightenment and combines literary burlesque - making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel - with larger moral, philosophical, and social issues: the folly of letting literature get in the way of life, the inexcusability of not thinking for oneself, and the painful difficulties (especially for women) involved in growing up. Lady Susan and The Watsons are early compositions that reflect many of the qualities of Northanger Abbey. The first is an epistolary novel centring on the intrigues of the villainous Lady Susan; the second is an unfinished example of Jane Austen's most characteristic form - a story where the heroine is outstanding for her sense and goodness, virtues notably lacking in the other characters, who are here part of an altogether bleaker vision. Sanditon, too, is tragically incomplete, and it signals the achievement of a new depth and breadth of comic insight on the part of its author. [via]
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane Austen, R.W. ChapmanISBN 0192547038 (0-19-254703-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen'Book summary:Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society. Certain rules applied to who was eligible and who was not, how one courted and married and what one expected afterwards. To flout these rules was to tear at the basic fabric of society, and the consequences could be terrible. Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't. In Mansfield Park, for example, Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
Into this Cinderella existence comes Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, who are visiting relatives in the neighborhood. Soon Mansfield Park is given over to all kinds of gaiety, including a daring interlude spent dabbling in theatricals. Young Edmund is smitten with Mary, and Henry Crawford woos Fanny. Yet these two charming, gifted, and attractive siblings gradually reveal themselves to be lacking in one essential Austenian quality: principle. Without good principles to temper passion, the results can be disastrous, and indeed, Mansfield Park is rife with adultery, betrayal, social ruin, and ruptured friendships. But this is a comedy, after all, so there is also a requisite happy ending and plenty of Austen's patented gentle satire along the way. Describing the switch in Edmund's affections from Mary to Fanny, she writes: "I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that everyone may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people." What does not vary is the pleasure with which new generations come to Jane Austen. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Please Say Please!: Penguin's Guide to Mannersby Margery Cuyler, Will HillenbrandISBN 0439678749 (0-439-67874-9)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Mannersby Margaret VisserISBN 0140170790 (0-14-017079-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners'Book summary:With an acute eye and an irrepressible wit, Margaret Visser takes a fascinating look at the way we eat our meals. From the ancient Greeks to modern yuppies, from cannibalism and the taking of the Eucharist to formal dinners and picnics, she thoroughly defines the eating ritual.[via]"Read this book. You'll never look at a table knife the same way again."The New York Times.
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Tiffany's Table Manners for Teenagersby Walter Hoving, Joe Eula, Tiffany and CompanyISBN 0394828771 (0-394-82877-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tiffany's Table Manners for Teenagers'Book summary:Here is the perfect little book for anyoneteenage or otherwisewho has ever wanted to master the art of good table manners. Written by Walter Hoving, former chairman of Tiffany's of New York, it is a step-by-step introduction to all the basics, from the moment the meal begins ("It is customary for the young man to help the young lady on his right to be seated") to the time it ends ("Remember that a dinner party is not a funeral, nor has your hostess invited you because she thinks you are in dire need of food. You're there to be entertaining"). In addition to the essentials about silverware, service, and sociability, it includes many of the fine points, toothe correct way to hold a fish fork, how to eat an artichoke properly, and, best of all, how to be a gracious dining companion.
Concise, witty, and illustrated with humor and style by Joe Eula, this classic guide to good table manners has delighted readers of all ages for more than 50 years. [via]More editions of Tiffany's Table Manners for Teenagers:
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