Manners and social usages vs Soulless: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Manners and social usages Manners and social usages M. E. W. Sherwood · 1884 ★★★★☆ 3.9 491 pages · ≈ 9 h 06 m · Challenging

Etiquette manuals are an important sources of information on ballrooms and social dance during the nineteenth-century. Sherwood's book is an exceptional source for etiquette as it was practiced in the late 1880s.…

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Cover of Soulless Soulless Gail Carriger · 2010 ★★★★☆ 4.1 320 pages · ≈ 5 h 56 m · Light

"Condemned by society and her werewolf husband due to a pregnancy she cannot explain, Alexia Maccon-- preternatural, tea aficionado-- seeks an explanation for this 'infant inconvenience' so as to cleanse her sullied…

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The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Manners and social usagesSoulless
Goodreads 4.1 (11) —
Hardcover — 3.8 (349)
Google Books — 4.5 (5)
Apple Books — 4.5 (262)

Reception

Manners and social usagesSoulless
Ratings 11 349
Editions 9 4
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read 17 —
Reading it now 4 —
Written reviews 3 —
Wikipedia attention — 428
Pages 491 320

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