Lumo Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 I've been playing around with the Kindle app on my PC (not having an actual Kindle) and looking at free ebooks. So far the most amusing one I have found has been "Routledge's Manual of Etiquette [Kindle Edition]" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Routledges-Manual-of-Etiquette-ebook/dp/B000JML9YA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM&qid=1309858608&sr=1-1 I'm not sure of the exact year of original publication but I guess it is from the Victorian era sometime. From reading and watching period dramas I knew that's how people lived in those days, but actually reading a guide of how to live somehow makes the crazy class divisions and contrast between luxury of few and poorness of the rest real in a way that a fiction book doesn't. Has anyone come across any other amusing old ebooks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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