How to be an Alien [antikvár]

Introduction The weather is the most important subject in the land. In Europe, people say, 'He is the type of person who talks about the weather,' to show that somebody is very boring. In England, the weather is always an interesting, exciting subject and you must be good at talking about it. George Mikes wrote this book to tell the EngUsh what he thought about them. He is both funny and rude about the strange things Enghsh people do and say - the things that make them different from other Europeans. In this book you wiU learn many useful rules about being EngUsh.You wiU learn how to talk about the weather, and what to say when somebody brings you a cup of tea at 5 o'clock in the morning. You wiU discover what the Enghsh really think of clever people and doctors. This book wiU help you to be more like the EngUsh. As George Mikes says: 'If you are Uke the EngUsh, they think you are fiinny. If you are not Uke them, they think you are even funnier.' George Mikes was born in Hungary in 1921. He studied law at Budapest University, and then began to write for newspapers. He came to London for two weeks just before the Second World War began, and made England his home for the rest of his Ufe. During the war he worked for the BBC, making radio programmes for Hungary. He wrote How to be an Alien in 1946. He did not want to write an amusing book, but thousands of EngUsh people bought it and found it very fUnny. He wrote many other books about foreigners and Enghsh people. The story of his Ufe, How to be Seventy, went on sale in bookshops on his seventieth birthday in 1982. He died in 1987.