AMERICANS AND OTHERS by Agnes Repplier - 1912

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1912. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1912 EDITION. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show light edge wear and minor rubbing. Back strip edge wear. Hinge cracked but binding intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Ayer Co Pub, 1912-06. Hardcover. Good.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, nd (1912). Tan cloth, top edges gilt. Ex-library, fore edges lightly foxed: VG/no dj. 12mo.

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Small 8vo, pp. 297. Tan cloth with gilt lettering. TEG. Spine slightly darkened, corners very slightly scuffed, o/w a nice copy. Essays.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Small 8vo, pp. 297. Tan cloth with gilt lettering. TEG. Ex library with bookplate; pocket removed. Spine slightly darkened, corners very slightly scuffed, o/w a VG tight copy. Essays.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo. 1912. First Edition, 298pp, top edge gilt, overall a VG copy. A book of essays; the author's twelfth book..

MP3 Audio CD. Americans and Others A Question of Politeness "La politesse de l'esprit consiste a penser des choses honnetes et delicates." A great deal has been said and written during the past few years on the subject of American manners, and the consensus of opinion is, on the whole, unfavourable. We have been told, more in sorrow than in anger, that we are not a polite people; and our critics have cast about them for causes which may be held responsible for such a universal and lamentable result. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, for example, is by way of thinking that the fault lies in the sudden expansion of wealth, in the intrusion into the social world of people who fail to understand its requirements, and in the universal "spoiling" of American children. He contrasts the South of his childhood, that wonderful "South before the war," which looms vaguely, but very grandly, through a half-century's haze, with the New York of to-day, which, alas! has nothing to soften its… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Repplier managed to become one of the most notable discursive essayists of America, despite having a troubled childhood, due to her independent behavior. Her writings include collections of essays, biographical studies, a few short stories as well as many articles, containing biting literary criticism and opinions on contemporary life. At the same time, her writing is elegant, thoughtful and most of all influential. Life's everyday dead weights that she talks about are just as current today as when Agnes Repplier wrote them, in the beginning of the 20th century.?Americans and Others? appeared in 1912 and includes fourteen of Repplier's essays, where she shows her witty satire as well as her refined and gracious style ? a gentlewoman with wholesome ideas and ideals alike. What she does is ridiculing the defects but also encouraging the merits of social life in her country.Here are a few examples.??A Question of Politeness?In this essay, the author disagrees, through arguments, with the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Americans and Others A Question of Politeness "La politesse de l'esprit consiste a penser des choses honnetes et delicates." A great deal has been said and written during the past few years on the subject of American manners, and the consensus of opinion is, on the whole, unfavourable. We have been told, more in sorrow than in anger, that we are not a polite people; and our critics have cast about them for causes which may be held responsible for such a universal and lamentable result. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, for example, is by way of thinking that the fault lies in the sudden expansion of wealth, in the intrusion into the social world of people who fail to understand its requirements, and in the universal "spoiling" of American children. He contrasts the South of his childhood, that wonderful "South before the war," which looms vaguely, but very grandly, through a half-century's haze, with the New York of to-day, which, alas! has nothing to soften its… Read More