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Welcome to Finishing School. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners—and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but the also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage—in the politest possible ways, of course.

I wish I could attend a school as fun as this finishing academy, with its host of endearing, headstrong characters. The only way of overhearing her mother, Mrs. Barnaclegoose, and the stranger was from inside the dumbwaiter. It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother.

Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners—and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. Du kanske gillar. Manners and Mutiny Gail Carriger E-bok. Curtsies and Conspiracies Gail Carriger E-bok. Little, Now Sophronia is learning not only handkerchief manipulation and the language of fans but also intelligence-gathering, knife-throwing, and drink-poisoning.

When flywaymen highwaymen of the air attack the school, looking for a priceless prototype that is supposed to be hidden there, Sophronia and her classmates use their new skills to defend themselves and uncover a conspiracy. Readers will enjoy rushing headlong through a series of misadventures with Sophronia and her various compatriots in this thoroughly entertaining first of a proposed series. Access options available:.

Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! But the school is not quite what her mother was expecting -- here young girls learn to finish As well as the finer arts of dress, dance and etiquette, they also learn how to deal out death, diversion and espionage.

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