More Than Beauty. Lessons of Femininity from the Heroines of Cult Novels

“More Than Beauty” is a chance to learn refined manners and feminine techniques from the heroines of iconic classic novels. Author Maria Shipilova analyzed and gathered together the brightest examples of how young women and women—famous from recognized classics—live: from Emma of Gustave Flaubert’s well-known novel “Madame Bovary” to Leo Tolstoy and his Anna Karenina.

Thanks to them, you will learn how to catch the admiring looks of passersby, win over society, create your own unique style, and also master the lost rituals and traditions of high society—still relevant today. Immortalized in books, these rules of conduct will remain unshakable foundations of good manners, no matter what century or era you were born in.