Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, (Hardcover)

from Equestrienne

Thank you, Judith Martin! Miss Manners Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior has been such an important book in my life. I still have my original copy; purchased before I left high school as an investment in my future. I have to attribute some of my social and business successes to this book. ...

from MerryMary

This is an honest-to-goodness etiquette book, but Judith is hilarious. I love her examples, the noms de guerre of her model family, and her precise tone that sounds prissy, but hints at a well-mannered wanton underneath!

from AlexTheHunn

Writing in the persona of Miss Manners, Judith Martin manages to be simultaneously tongue in cheek and in deadly earnest. Throughout her book she skewers pomposity and snobbery, while fighting for the maintenance of gracious and generous good manners. She shows that one need not be wealthy to con...

from sealford

As a woman living in the South who had tea parties with her grandmother on a regular basis, this book made me laugh so loudly at times that any company I had would assume that I was not a lady at all. In all seriousness, this book puts a spin on the "traditional" answers that well-meaning ladies ...

from tcrutch

I can't say that I love this book - the few times that I have had to use this book, the information that I needed was not in the book. I can't really compare it to other books, but it hasn't been that helpful.