Tag: Manner

To the Manner Born A Most Proper Guide to Modern Civility


Free Download Thomas Blaikie, "To the Manner Born: A Most Proper Guide to Modern Civility"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0812976592 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 2.5 mb
Your friends neglect to RSVP to your party invitation . . . co-workers munch their pungent meals near your office . . . pedestrians shout into their cell phones and practically knock you to the pavement.

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A Roundabout Manner Sketches of Life


Free Download A Roundabout Manner: Sketches of Life (Classic Collection) by William Makepeace Thackeray
English | 22 February 2018 | ISBN: 1910749923 | True EPUB | 144 pages | 1.7 MB
William Makepeace Thackeray has always been an author for those with discriminating literary palettes. `I do not hesitate to name Thackeray first’ said his most devoted disciple, Anthony Trollope. Few would deny that he is the finest literary stylist of his time. Thackeray was at his most Thackerayan in what he called `small beer chronicles’: the little things in life. His style reached its highest pitch in essays, his cutting wit in journalism.

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