商品簡介
How to Be a Brit, finally reissued for the first time since its original publication in 1986, is the affectionate and comic bestseller about the peculiar nature of the British loved by readers and authors alike. Delving into such important topics as the weather, tea, how not to be clever (which is considered bad manners) and queueing (according to Mikes, the national passion), the book's chapter on 'Sex' is simply as follows: 'Continental people have sex lives: the English have hot water bottles'. A portrait of curious social codes, much-cited down the years, How to Be a Brit examines the strange things we do and say. If you're British you'll love it; if you're a foreigner, you'll appreciate it . . .
作者簡介
George Mikes (pronounced 'me-cash'), was born in Hungary 1912. In 1938 he moved to London to become the correspondent for a Hungarian newspaper, and then he never left. A keen observer of the behaviour and misbehaviour of foreigners and natives in Britain, he is frequently cited by later authors including Kate Fox and Jeremy Paxman. He died in London in 1987.
