How to be a Brit
- Author George Mikes
- Narrator Richard Goulding
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 4 hours and 17 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Cultural studies, European history, Humour, Migration, immigration and emigration, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, Popular culture.
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What to expect
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George Mikes's perceptive manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness provides a complete guide to the British Way of Life. Having been born in Hungary, he eventually spent more than forty years in the field, and the fruits of his labour include insights on important topics including the weather, how to be rude and how to panic quietly.
Loved by readers and authors alike, 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. If you're British, you'll love it; if you're a foreigner, you'll appreciate it.
- 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."
- Sex: "Continental people have sex lives: the English have hot water bottles."
© George Mikes 1986 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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In all the miseries which plague mankind, there is hardly anything better than such radiant humour as is given to you. Everyone must laugh with you – even those who are hit with your little arrows.
Albert Einstein to George Mikes -
An instant classic
Francis Wheen on 'How to Be an Alien' -
Very funny
The Economist -
Bill Bryson is George Mikes’ love-child
Jeremy Paxman -
This is the vital textbook for Brits, would-be Brits, and anyone who wonders what being a Brit really means. Pass me my hot water bottle, please
Dame Esther Rantzen -
Wise and witty
Spectator
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