Product Description

Combining traditional standards of conduct with modern innovations, this guide to etiquette covers everything from basic table manners to precedence at the State Opening of Parliament.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28963 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 371 pages

About the Author
John Morgan was senior editorial contributor at Conde Nast and Associate Editor of GQ Magazine since it started in this country. As one of the UK's best-known writers on style, he wrote on all aspects of men's fashion, social behaviour and lifestyle for the Financial Times, and was a frequent broadcaster and commentator on matters of taste, correct form and dress.

Customer Reviews

All of you are right !
There seems to be a needless dispute going on here.
This book is both a helpful guide to both the hazards of etiquette for those of us baffled by place settings and such AND it is a work of comic genius describing, with the barest flicker of irony though the author clearly subscribes to them, the more lunatic codes of a pampered class.

I have always felt that manners are to do with courtesy and making your fellow man or woman feel at ease, whereas etiquette is more to do with putting the other person on the back foot, but this volume will help you with both : alerting you to the needs and perceptions of others as well as protecting the unwary from seemingly impenetrable social obstacles.

If you are one of those people who keep small volumes in their smallest room then this is far more valuable and browseable than most of the "novelty" books you will end up getting as Christmas presents.

A great book, covers all aspects of manners.
This is a great book that will keep you in good company, every little detail is covered right down to what colour ink you should use in your pen, types if papper and its weight, to how to eat grapes. It is a must have.

When Doing Things Right Matter
When faced with an impending problem of how to eats some garden peas, I knew just where to turn! Seriously though, this is a jolly interesting read and is a book that is bound to prove its worth somewhere along the line.

I bought it because I had borrowed a copy when I had a rather tricky letter to write and it came up trumps then. You look a bit of a chump if you leave it on your coffee table by mistake though!

Its good fun testing 'posh' people too!