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Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
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Document Type: | Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Martin |
OCLC Number: | 63270620 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2005. Freshly updated. |
Description: | 1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Birth -- Basic civilization -- Common courtesty for all ages -- Table manners -- Social intercourse -- Electronic communication (personal) -- Family relations -- Visiting -- Houseguests -- Unpleasant facts of life -- Rites de passage -- Marriage (for beginners) -- Work -- Intermediate civilization -- Ever after -- Advanced civilization -- Death -- Answers to questions nobody asked. |
Responsibility: | Judith Martin. |
Abstract:
Your neighbor denounces cellular telephones as instruments of the devil. Your niece swears that no one expects thank-you letters anymore. Your father-in-law insists that married women have to take their husbands' names ... Who is right? [This book] includes the latest letters, essays ... along with the laugh-out-loud wisdom. [In the book, the author] guide[s] rules on the challenges brought about by our society, once again proving that etiquette, far from being an optional extra, is the essential currency of a civilized world.-Dust jacket.
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