The Unexpurgated CODE: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners (w/Jacket!) 1975
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The Unexpurgated CODE: A Complete Manual of Survival & Manners. J. P. Donleavy (Author), Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, U.S.A., 1975.
Humor
ISBN: 044007794x
Vintage from the 1970s
The book is a guide for people who feel that they should belong to the manner born - that is, not having to work and generally living a life of luxury.
Chapters:
- Social Climbing
- Extinctions and Mortalities
- Vilenesses Various
- In Pursuit of Comfortable Habits
- Perils and Precautions
The book consists of hundreds of anecdotes and events one may encounter throughout life, and how to deal with them. Some examples include:
- Upon Embellishing your Background
- Accent Improvement
- Upon the Sudden Reawakening of your Sordid Background
- Ass kissing and other types of Flattery
- Suicide
- Cannibalism
- Upon Saucy Assemblages
- Upon Marrying a Lady for Her Money
- Stripping and Streaking
- When the Overwhelming Desire to Goose a Lady Cannot be Suppressed
- Upon Being a Member of the Titled Classes
- Blowing upon Your Soup
- Wife Beating
- Shabby People
- Shabby Shabby People
- Shabby Shabby Shabby People
Book with mild wear and a sunned cover. The jacket has some top edge creasing and tears at the top of the spine. Owner name/date at the front free endpaper. Hardcover book with 283 pages.