Sorry! The English and Their Manners
The English and Their Manners
$32.70
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2013
Summary
Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners - holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this patchwork of beliefs and behaviours come from? How did manners develop? How do they change? And why do they matter so much to us? In examining our manners, Henry Hitchings delves into the English character and investigates our notions of Englishness.
Sorry! presents an amusing, illumi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848546677 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184854667X |
| Author: | Henry Hitchings |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 319g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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A writer of apparently limitless learning and intelligence, who writes works of scholarship masquerading as popular narrative non-fiction … the man is something else - Guardian
An excellent history, just don’t read it at the dinner table … this insightful book will give you pause the next time you wipe your nose on the duvet or - social death! - top up your host’s glass at a New Year’s Eve party - The TimesAmusing and enlightening … he is particularly insightful in depicting the evolutionary shift manners have taken since they were first codified on paper in the Middle Ages - Financial Times[Hitchings] is a lovely writer, full of interesting ideas and neat turns of phrase - Daily MailHitchings has made a bold, entertaining and often imaginative, assault on a fundamentally impossible subject - ObserverManners is a fascinating subject, and Hitchings handles it with all his customary wit, knowledge and elegance - Mail on SundayHighly entertaining and absorbing book - Daily TelegraphUnderstated elegance … it is itself an impeccably well-mannered and deeply English product - The SpectatorAbout The Author
Henry Hitchings
Henry Hitchings was born in 1974. He has contributed to many newspapers and magazines and is theatre critic for the Evening Standard.
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