Etiquette Emily Post

Etiquette
Emily Post

ISBN: 155709991X EAN: 9781557099914
Publisher: Applewood Books(MA)
Physical Info: 5.18 cms H x 23.27 cms L x 16.31 cms W (1.05 kgs) 627 pages
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: February 2006
Publisher Marketing: A facsimile of the 1922 first edition. The world in which Emily Post's 1922 bestseller Etiquette appeared was one of great change, not unlike our own. The rules of social intercourse became murky and people immediately connected with Emily Post's philosophy of etiquette as unchanging and manners as a personality. This hardcover facsimile of the first edition includes many tips Post gave her devoted followers on subjects such as greetings and salutations, cards and visits, teas and other afternoon parties, dinners, balls and dances, debutantes, chaperons, engagements, wedding planning, christenings, funerals, the country house, correspondence, clubs, games and sports, business, dress, everyday manners at home and abroad, and the growth of good taste in America. This book is chock-a-block full of the only civilized antidote to a world gone mad.

Brief Description:
This hardcover facsimile of the original 1922 "Etiquette" includes the many tips Emily Post gave her devoted followers on the rules of social intercourse and everyday manners at home and abroad--the only civilized antidote to a world gone mad.

Review Quotes:
Trend spotting Oh, Behave! From grandes dames of good behavior and modern advocates of fabulousness, manners make a comeback. "Emily Post is the literary It Girl of the moment, and she has Joan Didion to thank for it. Despite the fact that she's been dead for nearly fifty years, Post and her seminal guide to good manners, Etiquette, have come up in nearly every review of Didion's best-selling new memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. Critics can't resist mentioning that in the dark days after her husband's death in late 2003, Didion found great solace in the "Funerals" chapter of Etiquette's first edition, published in 1922. Psychologists, poets, and philosophers could theorize all they wanted about the stages of grief and how to cope, but in Post, Didion found the reasoned voice that really offered relief. It was the relief of ritual -- of an established code of conduct that could safely transport her from one difficult moment to the next, without the burden of hand-wringing analysis." -- Blair Campbell "East Bay Express" (10/26/2005)

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