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| Emily Post's Essentials | 
 enlarge | Author: Peggy Post
Publisher: Avon
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2577251
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0062736647
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.3
EAN: 9780062736642
ASIN: 0062736647
Publication Date: July 1, 1999
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Condition: Some wear on book from reading, we guarantee all purchases and ship all items via USPS mail.
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Product Description
The signature of good taste. Whatever the occasion, etiquette expert Peggy Post shows you how to entertain with elegance and ease. From cocktails and dinners to lunches, brunches, and teas, from children's parties to buffets, and everything in between, here is the essential guide you need for all everyday parties and events. You'll find advice on: invitations being a good hostor a good guest business entertainment last-minute entertaining houseguestsintroductions and conversations toasts caterers handling accidents, mishaps, and bad behavior mealtime manners and much more.
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 Odd for a manners book to be offensive, but it is. August 15, 2005
2 out of 22 found this review helpful
Ms. Post's book is downright offensive in its discussion of children.
For example, Ms. Post takes for granted that children (and not adults) must rise when adults (and not children) enter a room. In certain circumstances, anyone should rise on anyone's entrance, in other situations only if the person or his office warrants unusual respect, and I had hoped to find in this book guidance on distinguishing one from the other. Instead, I got what I can explain only by attributing to Ms. Post the prejudice that every adult is ipso facto morally superior to any child. If she came by that view honestly, she must have been peculiarly blest in the adults she's encountered--and peculiarly cursed in the children.
 Nice compact book, but nothing special November 1, 2001
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
Solid book with the basics of etiquette for various situations. But I didn't find this book special or with anything that stood out as especially useful. Nevertheless, a nice compact guide.
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