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Book 1: Etiquette. Mrs Freimuth's School

The book is a version of Olga Freimuth's ironic rules of good manners. Despite the fact that from the experience of ethics, etiquette and some unwritten laws, good manners, given the history of culture, are often different for women and men, women offer their own rules of the game in life: personal, professional and social. This is not a game of beads, not a game of classics, but not coaching for kids either. The book is by no means a correctional colony, no one is forced to do "one way or the other". So, in fact, there are no commissions, and the concept of beauty is a separate ritual. Perhaps you will reach a new level of the game if you break the rules of comme il faut in a subtle and beautiful way. As Byron bequeathed: once upon a time, people created manners, now manners create people. The truth of this book is also that there was a saintly woman who was the first to wear trousers instead of a skirt, who threw off her fears of looking crazy and gave other women the right to do as she did. The publication is illustrated with reprints of the pages of the textbook «Friend» for students of institutions that educated noble ladies in nineteenth-century Ukraine.

Who is the book for

For a wide range of ladies and gentlemen with a sense of humour and self-irony.

The spice of the book

In her book, O. Freimuth answers the rhetorical question: are ladies born or do they become? The author of Etiquette is a brave person, like a scientist who experiments in the laboratory and experiments on herself. It is not only art and science that find it difficult to accept the imperfections of human nature and this world. The characters in Mrs Freimuth's School are not as serious as the venerable experimenters in Bernard Shaw's story, but if the classic described the rituals of transforming a flower seller into a duchess, it was not without reason. The classic story of Eliza Doolittle is eternal, no matter how literary it may seem to some. And it continues to this day.

Book 2. The School of Mrs Freimuth

— «About Love» – the second book in the series «Mrs Freimuth's School» after «Etiquette», a guide to good manners for ladies with a good sense of humour.

— «About Love» – is a collection of unknown works by famous authors about non-banal love. To the Beloved, to the Child, to the Motherland and to oneself.

— The book publishes for the first time essays by Olya Freimuth, fragments of which have long been loudly discussed on the Internet.

The collection includes unique works by Olga Kobylianska, Faina Ranevska, Lesya Ukrainka, Yuriy Vynnychuk, Natalena Koroleva, Marina Tsvetaeva and Anton Chekhov. For the first time, little-known works by O. Henry, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and Kate Chopin, who wrote for the American Vogue in the 1900s, are translated and presented in Ukrainian.

«About Love» – is a selected book for the chosen few. Designed to touch the heart and leave a pleasant aftertaste...

...The book will be a comfort and a stylish gift for those you love.