How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils

Mikes, George

ISBN 10: 0140025146 / ISBN 13: 9780140025149

Verlag: Penguin, 1973

Beschreibung

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils
• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1973
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0140025146
• ISBN-13: 9780140025149
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

George Mikes says, 'the English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.' But they do have a sense of humour - they provide it by buying over three hundred thousand copies of a book that took them quietly and completely apart, a book that really took the Mikes out of them.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

George Mikes (pronounced 'me-cash'), was born in Hungary 1912. In 1938 he moved to London to become the correspondent for a Hungarian newspaper, and then he never left. A keen observer of the behaviour and misbehaviour of foreigners and natives in Britain, he is frequently cited by later authors including Kate Fox and Jeremy Paxman. He died in London in 1987.