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How to be an Alien - A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils

How to be an Alien - A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils

by George Mikes

 eBook, Published by Penguin   (01 November 1969)

£6.99

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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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