Sorry!: The English and Their Manners

by Henry Hitchings

Book Overview

A humorous and charming investigation into what it really means to have proper manners Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners--holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table--and we certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this patchwork of beliefs and behaviors come from? How did manners develop? How do they change? And why do they matter so much? In examining English manners, Henry Hitchings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374266751
• ISBN13: 9780374266752
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"