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Title: How to Be a Brit
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 024197500X
ISBN 13: 9780241975008
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

George Mikes provides a complete guide to the British Way of Life. Born in Hungary, he eventually spent more than 40 years in the field, and the fruits of his labor include insights on important topics including the weather, how to be rude, and how to panic quietly. How to Be a Brit contains Mikes's three major works: How to be an Alien, How to be Inimitable, and How to be Decadent. The advice includes such gems as how to plan a town ("Street names should be painted clearly and distinctly on large boards. Then hide these boards carefully"); queuing ("An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one"); and sex ("Continental people have sex lives: the English have hot water bottles").

About the Author

George Mikes moved to London in 1938 to become the correspondent for a Hungarian newspaper. A keen observer of the behavior and misbehavior 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.

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