Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried
by Judith Martin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0517701650
- ISBN 13
- 9780517701652
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About This Item
New York: Crown, October 1999. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior unmarked. Spine ends bumped. Dust stains to top edge. Jacket clean and bright with light edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 372 pages.
Contents:
Chapter One--The People Allotting due space and respect to parents, children, roommates, relatives--and whoever those other people are whom one of them must have brought home;
Chapter Two--The Place Making use of the rooms instead of turning them into a mess or a museum, while everybody huddles upstairs;
Chapter Three--The Rules Negotiating compromises without having to leave home for Domestic Dispute Court;
Chapter Four--The System Keeping track of where everybody is, where they are supposed to be, and what they are supposed to be doing (if they remember);
Chapter Five--The Help Getting the housework done when you can't complain about the Servant Problem--because the servants are you and the people in the phone book who may be there sometime today;
Chapter Six--The Visitors Offering hospitality without surrendering your privacy or your resources to the thankless;
Chapter Seven--Entertaining: The Social Contract Reviving the art of not-for-profit entertaining to make friends who will love you for yourself;
Chapter Eight--Entertaining: The Social Event Learning to give a variety of parties, formal and informal--because it beats staying home alone watching TV;
Chapter Nine--Entertaining: The Relatives Kindling warm memories rather than heated conflict at family occasions;
Chapter Ten--The Community Being pleasant enough to the neighbors so you're not afraid to walk out your own front door.
Contents:
Chapter One--The People Allotting due space and respect to parents, children, roommates, relatives--and whoever those other people are whom one of them must have brought home;
Chapter Two--The Place Making use of the rooms instead of turning them into a mess or a museum, while everybody huddles upstairs;
Chapter Three--The Rules Negotiating compromises without having to leave home for Domestic Dispute Court;
Chapter Four--The System Keeping track of where everybody is, where they are supposed to be, and what they are supposed to be doing (if they remember);
Chapter Five--The Help Getting the housework done when you can't complain about the Servant Problem--because the servants are you and the people in the phone book who may be there sometime today;
Chapter Six--The Visitors Offering hospitality without surrendering your privacy or your resources to the thankless;
Chapter Seven--Entertaining: The Social Contract Reviving the art of not-for-profit entertaining to make friends who will love you for yourself;
Chapter Eight--Entertaining: The Social Event Learning to give a variety of parties, formal and informal--because it beats staying home alone watching TV;
Chapter Nine--Entertaining: The Relatives Kindling warm memories rather than heated conflict at family occasions;
Chapter Ten--The Community Being pleasant enough to the neighbors so you're not afraid to walk out your own front door.
Synopsis
Judith Martin's thrice-weekly syndicated column runs in more than two hundred North American newspapers. The author of Miss Manners: A Citizen's Guide to Civility , she lives in Washington, D.C.
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- Title
- Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility: The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried
- Author
- Judith Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517701650
- ISBN 13
- 9780517701652
- Publisher
- Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 1999
- Keywords
- etiquette, family, households
- Bookseller catalogs
- Etiquette and Protocol;
- Size
- 8vo
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