How To Be An Alien In England

Author : Angela Kiss
Publisher : September Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-18
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781910463222

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A wry, often affectionate view on the English, and how to navigate our national personality. 'In England everything is typical. If your train is late, it is typical. If there are no seats on the upper deck of a bus, it is typical. If it starts to rain at five o'clock just before you leave work, it is typical.' 'The English do not like to be wished "Have a nice day", because to them it sounds like a command. They think, Who the hell do you think you are to order me to have a nice day?' Ten years ago, Angela Kiss arrived in the UK without a word of English. All she brought with her was a small bag, a sense of adventure, a desire to work and a copy of George Mikes' classic 1940s' humour book about the peculiarities of the British, How to be an Alien. Through every dodgy flat share, low-paid waitressing job, awkward date and office mishap, Angela held tight to George's wit and wisdom. With his help she began to understand how to live amongst the English - with their eccentricity, spirit and singing train drivers - and fell in love with a land rich in green spaces, pubs and puddings.

Author : George Mikes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1946-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0233955003

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Author : George Mikes
Publisher : Penguin Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : England
ISBN : 0582401879

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Why are English people so different from other Europeans? This book tries to explain the strange things that the English do and say.

Author : George Mikes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1973-07-26
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780141930442

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How to be an Alien by George Mikes Pdf

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.

Author : William Cunningham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015046411008

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Alien Immigrants to England by William Cunningham Pdf

Author : George Mikes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986-04-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780141927015

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How to be a Brit by George Mikes Pdf

The hilariously accurate, witty and indispensable manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness 'Got me in tears of laughter' 5***** Reader Review 'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, witty and insightful' 5***** Reader Review _______ Born in Hungary, George Mikes eventually spent more than forty years in the Britain observing behaviours and misbehaviours of local and foreign Brits. With essential chapters such as "How to Avoid Travelling", "On Shopping", "In Praise of Television", "On Not Complaining" and "How to Panic Quietly", you'll get to know Britain like never before. 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. 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." George Mikes's perceptive bestseller provides a complete guide to the British Way of Life. _______ 'Hilarious and informative essays about the British way of life' 5***** Reader Review 'So many people have tried to describe the English mentality . . . This book is as near as you can get!' 5***** Reader Review

Author : George Mikes
Publisher : ePenguin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1986-04-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:49015003072676

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Contains such book as "How to be an Alien," "How to be Inimitable" and "How to be Decadent."

Author : George Mikes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : English
ISBN : UVA:X000336622

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How to be an Alien by George Mikes Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:1244839711

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George Mikes describes the strange things the English do and say.

Author : Laura Hunt Yungblut
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134976393

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Strangers Settled Here Amongst Us by Laura Hunt Yungblut Pdf

During the reign of Elizabeth I, large numbers of aliens immigrated into England for various reasons, most notably to escape religious persecution and the wars that wrecked the Continent in the sixteenth century. Much like governments facing immigration issues today, England's governors struggled to strike a balance between the potentially beneficial and the potentially dangerous aspects of the aliens' presence. Strangers Settled Here Amongst Us focuses on the link between the aliens, native English and the central government. It explores policies and attitudes, bringing new perspectives to familiar documents as well as introducing documents rarely seen in the subject's scholarship.

Author : William Cunningham
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297679113

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Alien Immigrants to England by William Cunningham Pdf

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Author : W. Cunningham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1528480031

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Alien Immigrants to England (Classic Reprint) by W. Cunningham Pdf

Excerpt from Alien Immigrants to England The Carrying It is not necessary in seeing a famous town out unmea to visit every public building and private house, and so for the carrying out of this plan it has been determined that adequate treatment can be secured of certain subjects in a series of books that should be popular, not only in style, but also in the demands they make upon the reader's time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781618247827

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The High Crusade by Poul Anderson Pdf

In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking over planets, and having determined from orbit that this one was suitable, they initiate standard world-conquering procedure. Ah, but this time it's no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave¾they've launched their invasion against free Englishmen! In the end, only one alien is left alive¾and Sir Roger's grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel. Unfortunately, he has not allowed for the treachery of the alien pilot, who instead takes the craft to his home planet, where, he thinks, these upstart barbarians will have no choice but to surrender. But that knavish alien little understands the indomitable will and clever resourcefulness of Englishmen, no matter how great the odds against them... At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Arnold White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Aliens
ISBN : UOM:39015023527438

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The Destitute Alien in Great Britain by Arnold White Pdf

Author : Hannah Ewence
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030259761

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The Alien Jew in the British Imagination, 1881–1905 by Hannah Ewence Pdf

This book explores how fin de siècle Britain and Britons displaced spatially-charged apprehensions about imperial decline, urban decay and unpoliced borders onto Jews from Eastern Europe migrating westwards. The myriad of representations of the ‘alien Jew’ that emerged were the product of, but also a catalyst for, a decisive moment in Britain’s legal history: the fight for the 1905 Aliens Act. Drawing upon a richly diverse collection of social and political commentary, including fiction, political testimony, ethnography, travel writing, journalism and cartography, this volume traces the shifting rhetoric around alien Jews as they journeyed from the Russian Pale of Settlement to London’s East End. By employing a unique and innovative reading of both the aliens debate and racialized discourse concerned with ‘the Jew’, Hannah Ewence demonstrates that ideas about ‘space’ and 'place’ critically informed how migrants were viewed; an argument which remains valid in today’s world.