How to be an Alien

A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils

(Author) George Mikes
Format: Paperback
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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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Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
89
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780140025149
Publish year:
1973
Publish date:
July 26, 1973

George Mikes

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