Category: Classic, Family, Relationships Book Title: The Book of Good Manners Author: W.C. Green Book Description: Good manners are the first mark of good breeding and reflect directly on a person's upbringing.
I have been given a very simple criterion for judging manners - good manners are based on consideration for other people. Tact, diplomacy and hospitality - all these are based on good manners.
For instance, take table manners.
You
Category: Classic Book Title: ABOVE LIFE'S TURMOIL Author: James Allen Book Description: Table of Contents:
• Foreword
• True Happiness
• The Immortal Man
• The Overcoming of Self
• The Uses of Temptation
• The Man of Integrity
• Discrimination
• Belief, the Basis of Action
• Belief that Saves
• Thought and Action
• Your Mental Attitude
• Sowing and Reaping
• The Reign of Law
• The Supreme
Category: Classic, Novels Book Title: The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling Book Description: If you think you know this book by Disney's cartoon of the same name, think again. Movies rarely, if ever, live live up to the source story or novel, and this is no exception.
Category: Classic, Fiction, Novels Book Title: CROSS-PURPOSES Author: John O'Loughlin Book Description: This novel moves beyond the largely autobiographical concerns of John O'Loughlin's earlier experiments in the genre - Changing Worlds and Fixed Limits - towards a more imaginatively fictional integrity which led him by the nose, so to speak, into contexts and situations largely outside the domain of his personal experience.
Category: Beauty, Body, Classic Book Title: The Woman Beautiful Book Description: Her beauty-creed hangs not from rouge pots and bleaches, but suspends like a banner of truth from the laws of wise, hygienic living.
Her cheeks are tinted with the glow that comes from good, well-circulated blood, her eyes are bright and lovely because her mind is so, and her complexion is transparent and soft and velvety for
Category: Classic, Humor, Novels Book Title: Emma Jane Austen Book Description: Published in her lifetime were Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), comedies of manners, depicting the self-contained world of the English counties.
Category: Classic, Romance Book Title: Little Women
Louisa May Alcott Book Description: Little Women is actually the combination of two novels. Ms. Alcott's publisher asked her to write a "a girls story". The first novel, published September 30, 1868, was an instant success, the country was so taken with Louisa's story that her publisher begged for a second volume.
Category: Classic, Novels Book Title: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Book Description: This is one of Jane Austen's most popular novels. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet and the haughty Darcy.
Category: Classic, Novels Book Title: Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Book Description: Anne, Emily and Charlotte Bronte were English novelists and poets. As children in a Yorkshire parsonage, the sisters created an imaginary literary world. In 1846 they published a collection of their poems, and in 1847 Anne's novel Agnes Grey, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte's Jane Eyre all appeared.
