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How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide

Autor George Mikes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 noi 2015
The hilariously accurate, witty and indispensable manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness

'Got me in tears of laughter'5***** Reader Review
'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, witty and insightful'5***** Reader Review
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Born in Hungary, George Mikes eventually spent more than forty years in the Britain observing behaviours and misbehaviours of local and foreign Brits.

With essential chapters such as "How to Avoid Travelling", "On Shopping", "In Praise of Television", "On Not Complaining" and "How to Panic Quietly", you'll get to know Britain like never before.

Loved by readers and authors alike,How to Be a Britcontains Mikes's three major works --How to be an Alien,How to be InimitableandHow to be Decadent.

If you're British, you'll love it; if you're a foreigner, you'll appreciate it.

Queuing:"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one."

How to plan a town:
"Street names should be painted clearly and distinctly on large boards. Then hide these boards carefully."

Sex:
"Continental people have sex lives: the English have hot water bottles."

George Mikes's perceptive bestseller provides a complete guide to the British Way of Life.
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'Hilarious and informative essays about the British way of life'5***** Reader Review

'So many people have tried to describe the English mentality . . . This book is as near as you can get!'5***** Reader Review
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241975008
ISBN-10: 024197500X
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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.

Recenzii

In all the miseries which plague mankind, there is hardly anything better than such radiant humour as is given to you. Everyone must laugh with you - even those who are hit with your little arrows.
An instant classic
Very funny
Bill Bryson is George Mikes' love-child
This is the vital textbook for Brits, would-be Brits, and anyone who wonders what being a Brit really means. Pass me my hot water bottle, please
Wise and witty
Brilliantly comical
Mikes is a master of the laconic yet slippery put-down: "The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink"
I love it and read it cover to cover. Also has good tips for talking about the weather, not that we need them
Full of the very best advice that any would-be Brit should need (and for those of us who have forgotten exactly how it is to be ourselves) it's a jolly good read
How to be an Alieninspired me ... Some of his observations remain remarkably fresh and relevant 70 years later, but it's his tone that impressed me
I used to think that Mikes's world has gone, but it has returned to us in spades via the referendum.

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Contains such book as "How to be an Alien", "How to be Inimitable" and "How to be Decadent".