Etiquette
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Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in the principles of social etiquette who want to understand the logic behind good manners
- Readers studying twentieth-century American social customs and cultural history
- Writers seeking material who want to learn period manners and phrasing
- Advanced English learners who want to practice reading through the topic of etiquette
Not a good fit for
- Readers looking for a modern social guide they can follow directly
- Practical readers who expect concise, checklist-style etiquette rules
- Readers with little patience for outdated norms and their obvious limitations
Reading tips
- Read with a historical eye, distinguishing specific practices from the principles of respect behind them
- Skip around by topic—introductions, receiving guests, correspondence—rather than reading straight through
- Mark entries that still apply today as you read, building your own modern etiquette list
- In English, note period phrasing and letter formats as material for language and culture study
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Emily Post (1873–1960) was an American author best known for her writing on etiquette. Two of her works are held in this collection: Etiquette and The Title Market. Public information about her is limited, and details of her life fall outside the scope of this introduction. Her works address everyday life and social situations, explaining proper conduct through concrete examples. Etiquette deals with manners and social behavior in clear, practical language suited to ordinary readers. Such writing brought etiquette out of private circles and made it a public resource for ordinary households, leaving a lasting influence on the spread of American social customs in the twentieth century. The Title Market shows that she also wrote fiction. Her writing is marked by clear rules and specific examples, and remains a useful reference for understanding the social norms of her time.
