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

Mikes, George

 
9780140025149: How to be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0140025146 ISBN 13 : 9780140025149
Editeur : Penguin, 1973

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Penguin
Date d'édition
1973
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0140025146
ISBN 13 
9780140025149
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
96
Coordonnées du fabricant
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