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Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition (Thumb Indexed) (Hardcover)
by Peggy Post
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The best known book on the subject of etiquette.
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Author: Peggy Post
Publisher: Collins; 17 Indexed edition
Pub. in: November, 2004
ISBN: 0066209579
Pages: 896
Measurements: 9.4 x 7.7 x 2 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01404
Other information: 978-0066209579
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First published in 1922, this book has been an all-time classic now in its 17th edition.
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This book is an essential read for almost everyone, period. If you go outside your house, open your curtains, answer your phone, or even reply to your mail, electronic or otherwise, this book is for you. If you want a primer on manners because you feel like you're not "doing the right thing" in a social situation, this book is for you. The only reason you shouldn't have this book is if you have so little contact with other people that you would not even be on the internet reading this review in the first place.
When most people imagine what's inside a book like this, they see detailed instructions on how many inches the dinner fork must be from the salad fork, how many seconds one is required to wait before answering the phone, and how many inches of shoelace should hang off the side of one's sneakers. "Emily Post's Etiquette" is nothing like that. She emphasizes that changing times have put the heart of good manners where they belong: In the spirit of courtesy and respect for others.
What you should get from this book by reading it is the confidence to deal with life's difficult situations, and the grace to be polite even when others are not. What everyone else should get from this book is a little bit better world, where at least one more person can lead with a good example.
These potential benefits alone are enough to merit my recommendation. I encourage you to pick up a copy and find out for yourself just how much you can get from it.
(From quoting Oscar Leeper, USA)
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Peggy Post, Emily Post’s great-granddaughter-in-law, is a spokesperson and author for the Emily Post Institute. Peggy is co-author with her sister-in-law Cindy Post Senning of Emily’s Everyday Manners, (August 2006, HarperCollins Children), The Gift of Good Manners (for parents), and The Guide to Good Manners for Kids+ (for 8-12 year olds). Peggy’s books also include the 17th edition of Emily Post’s Etiquette and Emily Post’s Wedding Etiquette. Peggy writes monthly columns in Good Housekeeping and Parents magazines. She is the wedding etiquette expert for InStyle Weddings magazine and WeddingChannel.com. Peggy conducts lectures and seminars for businesses and community groups across the country. Her television appearances include Dr. Phil, Good Morning America, NBC’s Today, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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For the first time in its history, this American classic has been completely rewritten. Peggy Post gives us etiquette for today's times. Read by millions since the first edition was published in 1922, Emily Post—the most trusted name in etiquette—has always been there to help people navigate every conceivable social situation. The tradition continues with this 100 percent revised and updated edition, which covers the formal, the traditional, the contemporary, and the casual.
Based on thousands of reader questions, surveys conducted on the Emily Post Institute and Good Housekeeping Web sites, and Peggy's travels across the country, the book shows how to handle the new, difficult, unusual, and everyday situations we all encounter. The definition of etiquette—a code of behavior based on thoughtfulness—has not changed since Emily's day. The etiquette guidelines we use to smooth the way change all the time.
This new edition resolves hundreds of our key etiquette concerns: dealing with rudeness, netiquette, noxious neighbors, road rage, family harmony, on-line dating, cell phone courtesy, raising respectful children and teens, and travel etiquette in the post-9/11 world...to name just a few.
Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition also remains the definitive source for timeless advice on entertaining, social protocol, table manners, guidelines for religious ceremonies, expressing condolences, introductions, how to be a good houseguest and host, invitations, correspondence, planning a wedding, giving a toast, and sportsmanship.
Peggy Post's advice gives us the confidence of knowing we're doing the right thing so we can relax and enjoy the moment and move more easily through our world. Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition will be the resource of choice for years to come.
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From Publisher, USA
<2008-06-30 00:00>
Looking for the user’s manual that should have come with your life? This compendium of socially acceptable responses to every conceivable opportunity for personal embarrassment or inadvertent insult is as close as you’re likely to get. Post, great-granddaughter-in-law to the famous Emily, carries on the family business as a recognized authority and frequently interviewed and published author. Far from quaint, her update to the 1922 classic includes sections on how to graciously discuss a potential sex partner’s past and the circumstances under which one can re-gift in good conscience. These new sections seamlessly co-exist with discussions on perennially necessary topics, such as where to place a soupspoon when setting a formal table and whether one may wear white after Labor Day (the answer is yes). This integration of new material with old, according to Post, follows the same basic principles that underlay Emily Post’s original version—showing respect and consideration for others while placing a premium on honesty, graciousness and deference. The original book was considered revolutionary in its time because it recast manners from rigid Victorian rules into behavior that was based on ethics, values and common sense. This latest version isn’t revolutionary, but it’s useful. It also serves as a reminder of how individual choices may affect others and how easy it is to choose—words, wardrobes, gifts and actions—more wisely. At 800-plus pages, cover-to-cover reading isn’t intended. This is a book best referred to like a wise old aunt who would be consulted as situations warrant. Regardless of how one consumes it, every section, from "Dining and Entertaining" to "You and Your Job," tends to leave the reader feeling a bit improved for the effort and hopeful about Post’s assertion that good behavior is catching—the more it is displayed, the more it spreads.
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From Booklist, USA
<2008-06-30 00:00>
It is truly a wonder that more Americans don't consider Emily Post's discourses on etiquette one of the most useful reference books published, next to a dictionary, a thesaurus, and a world atlas. And with great-granddaughter-in-law's modernization, this seventeenth edition, covering birth through death, reflects what must be done concerning hundreds of social conventions. Wondering what are appropriate e-mail manners? Look no further than Peggy Post's list of 10 e-mail transgressions. Want to stifle the boorish conversationalist? Check carefully the author's witty rejoinders. With wisdom, wit, and no small amount of humility, Post carries on well the intent of her family: "Courteous people enrich their own spirits by making other people feel good." Barbara Jacobs
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Jeremy McGuire , USA
<2008-06-30 00:00>
No matter what your background is, you must be able to move comfortably in all circles; this is as true for the Rock-Star, Film-maker or Avante Garde painter as it is for the executive. Where some sources of modern manners are a bit too cute for men, Emily Post is straightforward and comprehensive. The large volume covers every aspect of social life from how to walk down the side-walk so as not to interrupt the flow of traffic to how to plan a wedding and all points between.
Etiquette is not the restrictive discipline that it was in the Victorian era, but there is still an art to making people feel comfortable around you and confident in you. There are also sections of the chapters devoted to manners in different cultures that increasingly make up the fabric of America.
I have enjoyed just opening the book at random and gleaning what wisdom is there, and make no mistake, there is great wisdom in behaving well. Far too often people do not get on in life and never know that it is their behavior that is at fault.
Some people just seem naturally to do the right thing with great grace and people are effortlessly drawn to them. For the rest of us, there is Emily Post. |
Specialkae, USA
<2008-06-30 00:00>
Wow, I just got this in the mail today and have already thumbed thru it quite a bit...as we're a fairly youngish couple, 20s and early 30's, we have many events to attend every few months, weddings, baby showers, parties and of course family get togethers. We also host an RPG gaming session every two weeks and have recently added a new player who helps himself to whatever is available in the kitchen, makes snide remarks about my husband and I calling each other "honey" and brought (oh horrors, I know) an uninvited guest (his girlfriend) over to the first session. So, as soon as I got my hands on this book, I found the Parties section. Very, very helpful and it not only pointed out the failing we had, ie, not offering food for everyone when they walk in the door, but also the general boorishness of our new addition in simply dropping by early/unannounced, how to handle his uninvited guest with grace and dignity and how to keep him from eating us out of house and home; politely of course. Highly recommended...I've always thought I was raised with good manners, but it's still good to have a reference book when some situations come up that maybe one was not educated in growing up. Buy this book for a friend, family member or dear co-worker. The format is easy to get thru and is truly meant as a reference, not a cover to cover read. Invaluable!!! |
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