George Mikes (8 kníh)
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George Mikes English Humour for Beginners ENIf you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour.So proclaims George Mikes' timeless exploration of this curious phenomenon. Whether it's understatement, self-deprecation or plain cruelty, the three elements he identifies as essential to our sense of humour, being witty here is a way of life. Perfectly placed as an adopted Englishman himself, Mikes delivers his shrewd advice -…
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George Mikes How to Be a Brit ENHow to be an Alien, How to be Inimitable, How to be Decadent. George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first of these came out in 1946: the ever famous How to be an Alien. Later he enlarges the picture with How to be inimitable and How to be Decadent. All three books…
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George Mikes How To Be a Brit ENThe indispensable manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness George Mikes's perceptive best-seller 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,…
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George Mikes How to be an Alien ENThis is the funniest book that you will read about English people! Why are the English different from Europeans? George Mikes' book describes the strange things the English do and say. And the English don't get angry when they read the book. They love it! You will too! This Pack contains a Book and MP3.
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George Mikes How to be an Alien ENGeorge 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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George Mikes How to be an AlienContemporary / British English. This is the funniest book that you will read about English people! Why are the English different from Europeans? George Mikes book describes the strange things the English do and say. And the English dont get angry when...
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George Mikes Jak být chudým CZCeloživotní nuzák, George Mikes, nás učí chudobě s elegancí, nadšením a vtipem. Již jako mladý si dobře uvědomoval nevýhody vlastnictví velkého majetku a později dovedl až k dokonalosti způsoby, jak se tomuto zlu vyhýbat a o své těžce nabyté zkušenosti je ochoten se s nadšením podělit. V kapitolách Střez se peněz, Lakota a Dobré kšefty nám ukazuje, čeho se vystříhat, abychom se nedopatřením nestali zámožnými.…
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George Mikes Jak se stát Britem CZGeorge Mikes v úsporných a o to vtipnějších povahopisných črtách postihuje svéráz života v Anglii a nástrahy, jaké tam čekají na cizozemce, člověka, který přišel odjinud a usiluje o přijetí do vybrané společnosti těch opravdových Britů. Dozvíme se o zvláštních britských zálibách, od hovorů o počasí a stání ve frontách po hru v kriket. Mikes je mistrem ironie a pronikavým pozorovatelem, i díky tomu jeho texty v ničem…
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