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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen

by Jenny Davidson

Other books by Jenny Davidson

Heredity by Jenny Davidson

The Explosionist by Jenny Davidson

Invisible Things by Jenny Davidson

The Magic Circle by Jenny Davidson

Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century by Jenny Davidson

Our most recommended books

The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee

The Peregrine by JA Baker

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder

The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah (edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith)

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

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Heredity
by Jenny Davidson

The Explosionist
by Jenny Davidson

Invisible Things
by Jenny Davidson

The Magic Circle
by Jenny Davidson

Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
by Jenny Davidson

The Road to Oxiana
by Robert Byron

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
by Laurie Lee

The Peregrine
by JA Baker

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder

The Travels of Ibn Battutah
by Ibn Battutah (edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith)

Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov