A dictionary of bad manners - Ganning, London

A dictionary of bad manners by Ganning, London

Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1982

This book is a lexicon guide to an increasingly bad-mannered world. It describes from A to Z the whole range of downright rotten behavior we see around us -- "those offenses," as the author remarks, "that line the vast gulf between pursuable criminal acts and psychological malfunctions requiring confinement." It identifies the likely committers of each atrocity against polite conduct and advises the reader how best to defend himself. Equally important, it gives precise appellations to the bad manners that have often driven us to fury but have ever before been properly named.