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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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How to be an Alien: a handbook for beginners and advanced pupils, George Mikes, Nicolas Bentley
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- Released
- 1966
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- George Mikes, Nicolas Bentley
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1966
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 88
- ISBN10
- 0140025146
- ISBN13
- 9780140025149
- Series
- Penguin Readers: Level 3
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Travel, Humor, Opinion Journalism & Essays, British Literature
- First published
- 1946
- Original title
- How to be an Alien + How to be Inimitable
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- 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.