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  1. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0192805525; 1429487178; 9780192805522; 9781429487177
    Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
    Subjects: Femmes / Morale pratique / Humour / Ouvrages avant 1800; Relations humaines / Humour / Ouvrages avant 1800; Morale pratique / Humour / Ouvrages avant 1800; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays; Conduct of life; Interpersonal relations; Women / Conduct of life; Frau; Women; Interpersonal relations; Conduct of life
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xlv, 111 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [xl]-xliii)

  2. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0192805525; 9780192805522
    RVK Categories: HK 4000
    Edition: 1. publ. as an Oxford World's Classics paperback
    Series: Oxford world's classics
    Subjects: Femmes - Morale pratique - Humour - Ouvrages avant 1800; Morale pratique - Humour - Ouvrages avant 1800; Relations humaines - Humour - Ouvrages avant 1800; Frau; Women; Interpersonal relations; Conduct of life
    Scope: XLV, 111 S., Ill.
  3. An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    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... more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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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. - ;'Now the sport begins!'. 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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0192805525; 9780192805522
    Series: Oxford world's classics
    Subjects: Conduct of life; Interpersonal relations; Women
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xlv, 111 p), 20 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [xl]-xliii)

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    Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Jane Collier; AN ESSAY ON THE ART OF INGENIOUSLY TORMENTING; Advertisement to the Reader; AN ESSAY ON THE ART OF TORMENTING; Part the First; I. Instructions to Masters and Mistresses, concerning their Servants; II. To the Patronesses of an Humble Companion; III. To Parents; IV. To the Husband; Part the Second; I. To Lovers; II. To the Wife; III. To the Friend; IV. To your Good Sort of People; being an appendage to the foregoing chapter; General Rules for plaguing all your acquaintance

    with the description of a party of pleasureConclusion of the Essay; A Fable; Explanatory Notes