How to be a Brit: The hilariously accurate, witty and indispensable manual for everyone longing to attain True Britishness - Couverture souple

Mikes, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140081798 ISBN 13 : 9780140081794

Editeur : Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first of these came out in 1946: the ever famous "How to be an Alien." Later he enlarges the picture with "How to be inimitable" and "How to be Decadent." All three books were illustrated by the master of the cartoonists’ art, the late Nicolas Bentley. Here they are, all in one volume, which will make life much easier for today's would-be Brits than it was for those who pervaded them. It is said that a few of the latter actually failed to become indistinguishable from the genuine British article because they found it too tiresome to seek out three separate books: a misfortune that need never again occur to anyone.

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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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140081798
• ISBN 13: 9780140081794
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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