The Technique of the Love Affair: By a Gentlewoman

by Doris Langley Moore

Book Overview

This 1928 classic--playfully shocking and surprisingly practical--is now back in print, astutely annotated for the nineties. Originally published anonymously by the multitalented Doris Langley Moore... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785816151
• ISBN13: 9780785816157
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Booksales
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

the previous review is just stupid

Why do people post who have NOT read the book they are writing a review for?! Like the poster below. Don't bother seeking Dorothy Parker's review of Technique of the Love Affair, like I did, thinking Parker maybe wrote more, because it's IN THE BOOK! And is, like, a paragraph long, at best; more than half is quoted on the very page you're reading!That rant aside, I love this book. While one should take its advice as lightly as its tone, it has invaluable tips for relating to men, especially the majority who, as Moore describes, are conformists congratulating themselves for being exceptional individuals, ie, supremely attached to the particular status symbols and labels of their class. Which, as an influence in paramour/mate selection, is NOT to be underestimated, personal experience has shown me. Moore's advice has been especially enlightening during some perplexing encounters with the male species; I am increasingly indebted to her as I get older. Doris Langley Moore deserves more appreciation!

Could be the most influential read of your year.

Once, I had a friend who had men falling all over her. Somehow, she knew how their brains were hard-wired. In fact, she would tell me, "do X, then Y, then Z, and he will call." And, (though he'd never called before), he called! For the past 10 years I've been trying to figure out what magic formula she used. This book explains it. Of course, not all men are the same, and the book adds the disclaimer that the techniques suggested work on men with rather conventional views toward women. But, it adds, most men are rather similar in what attracts them. (After all, how many men do you know who wouldn't date Meg Ryan?)

aka Feminine Wiles For Dummies

Long before John Gray or Ellen Fein & Sherrie Schneider wrote their best sellers, Doris Langley-Moore was advising young women about the art of romance. Langley-Moore's writing is clear, precise and classy, and is even more relavent today than when it was written. She breaks down the art of attraction, details how to develop feminine wiles, and explains why men reject 'nice' women. TOTLA is written as a dialogue between two characters which allows her to address areas of ignorance without insulting the reader. The editor's notes however are highly annoying and detract, rather than add, from the wisdom within this book. Skip right over them if you can.

Completely, utterly, knowingly Brilliant

The book that explains in entertaining, elegant detail the gameplan underlying your grandmother's advice on romance- and shows it was right on the money - Moore doesn't say why it works- she just explains how it works- and you instinctively know she's right- first because it all chimes with every woman's true experience, and secondly because its plainly obvious this woman is a master- even her prose is quietly seductive. I can't believe my luck in finding such a book- So unsentimental, so sensible, so absolutely right. Definitely for 'Rules' girls- but leaves the paltry inelegant modern equivilent in the dust- Moore makes the 'Rules' look just plain cheap.

Required reading for every single woman!!

I wish that I could make this book required reading for every 16-year-old girl in the world; it might save her a lot of heartache! It's a valuable addition to the romantic arsenal of any woman, no matter what her age.Doris Langley-Levy Moore was, and is, ahead of her time. Rather than losing herself in sappy sentimentality and wanton sensuality, she casts a very critical eye across the entire romantic battlefield. With a steady hand and experienced eye, she draws out a method of attack guaranteed to deliver results for the woman lucky enough to open this book's pages. But reader beware: the straight path isn't necessarily the easiest to follow. Many of the lessons Langley-Levy Moore teaches require a level of restraint virtually unheard of in today's instant-gratification society. Ah, but to the victor go the spoils...read on!