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An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

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An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting is the first English book on the craft of nagging.

A bitingly funny social satire, it is also an advice book, a handbook of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners.

The Art provides a fascinating glimpse into eighteenth-century daily life, the treatment of servants and dependants and the bringing up of children, and is a thrilling precursor to the art of Jane Austen.

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Oxford University Press
019151716X / 9780191517167
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
23/04/2009
England
English
101 pages
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