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How to Be a Brit

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A complete guide to the British Way of Life. If you're British, you'll love it. If you're not, you'll recognise it.
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Born in Hungary, George Mikes spent more than forty years in the Britain observing behaviours and misbehaviours of local and foreign Brits.

  • 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."


With essential chapters such as "How to Avoid Travelling", "In Praise of Television", "On Not Complaining" and "How to Panic Quietly", they'll get to know Britain like never before with this fun and informative gift!
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WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:

'Got me in tears of laughter'

'Hilarious and informative essays about the British way of life'

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

'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, witty and insightful

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780241975008
Publication date:
Author: George Mikes, George Mikes
Illustrator: Nicolas Bentley
Publisher: Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 254 pages
Genres: Popular culture
Migration, immigration and emigration
Places and peoples: general and pictorial works
European history
Humour

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