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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, George Mikes, Nicolas Bentley, Karen Holmes

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1999
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Language
English
Publisher
Langenscheidt
Released
1999
Format
Paperback
ISBN10
3526416869
ISBN13
9783526416869
First published
1946
Original title
How to be an Alien + How to be Inimitable
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3.85 out of 5
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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.