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Hints on Etiquette: A Shield Against the Vulgar by Various Authors
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Category: Classics | Series: The London Library
"If you are so unfortunate as to have contracted the low habit of smoking, be careful to practise it under certain restrictions" With nineteenth-century fashions constantly changing, but the importance of the baffling social codes entirely rigid, a newly-prosperous and bewildered middle class was in dir ...Show more
The Noble English Art of Self-Defence by Various Authors
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Category: No Category | Series: The London Library
"Never let the heat of action lead you to forget good-temper. Be manly; seek no undue advantage. Science and pluck give advantage enough" Ned Donnelly, a former prize fighter turned boxing instructor and author (with a lot of help from his literate friends), was a household name as a one of the most suc ...Show more
Through a Glass Lightly: Confession of a Reluctant Water Drinker by Various Authors
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Category: Wine and Drinks | Series: The London Library
"A drinker's crown of sorrow is remembering wetter days" The love of drinking was well-developed in the nineteenth-century Englishman. With chapters on port, claret, sherry, champagne, Burgundy, Madeira, wine cellars, glasses and butlers, Through a Glass Lightly is a love letter to wine and everything t ...Show more
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