Polite Society
Ginger Man
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Donleavy's famously bawdy comic novel is about a man who lives for booze and woman and who discards all the restricting conventions of polite society. Donleavy was unable to find a publisher for a novel considered scatological, blasphemous, and ge...
Sense and Sensibility
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Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father`s death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society.
Hattie On Her Way
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In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Hattie, still grieving over the death of her mother and lonely for her absent father, moves in with her grandmother in the city of Kingston, New York, to be educated and learn about polite society, and, while the...
Design for Tea
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Why did polite society lift its little finger along when raising the teacup to the mouth? What is a mote spoon? What is the difference between sugar nippers and sugar tongs?
The Lady Next Door
Marianne Findlay lives next door to the Earl of Latteridge’s York townhouse. Though she has never met him, it was his mother who sealed her fate years before—and drove her from polite society.
Immanent Visitor
Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia\'s greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poete maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination.