How to Be an Alien. A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils

George Mikes. Drawings by Nicolas Bentley

ISBN 10: 0140025146 / ISBN 13: 9780140025149

Published by Penguin Books, 1984

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Be an Alien. A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140025146
• ISBN 13: 9780140025149
• Binding: Tapa blanda.
• Condition: Bien. Forrado.
• Book Type: Libro

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.