George Mikes, een Brits auteur van Hongaarse afkomst, wordt geroemd om zijn geestige en inzichtelijke commentaren op nationale culturen en eigenaardigheden. Met het oog van een journalist voor detail en het hart van een humorist, ontleedde hij maatschappelijke normen en stereotypen met zachte satire. Zijn werken bieden een unieke lens om de absurditeiten en overeenkomsten van menselijk gedrag over grenzen heen te bekijken. Mikes' vermogen om amusement en begrip te vinden in culturele verschillen maakt zijn schrijven zowel onderhoudend als tot nadenken stemmend.
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 don't get angry when they read the book. They love it! You will too! This Pack contains a Book and MP3
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 don't get angry when they read the book. They love it! You will too! Niveau A2 Ab Klasse 8 Mit integrierten Übungen im Buch Zusätzliches Übungsmaterial für den Lehrer zum Download über www.langenscheidt.de/pearson
George Mikes describes the strange things the English do and say.
Hands up, those in the new first class who don't know George Mike's method of instruction. He mixes the sugar- i.e. the humour - so thoroughly that they become one substance, both delightful and nourishing. You will get a great deal of entertainment from this book, and it's the entertainment in itself which will teach you a great deal about Switzerland. Each chapter is illustrated by the witty Swiss artist, Godi Hofmann
It was over thirty years ago that George Mikes wrote How to be an Alien, the classic vade mecum for foreigners in Britain. The book became required reading for the alien, and an indispensable aid to self-understanding for the native.It is a heavy responsibility to be acknowledged as the leading expert on a subject as tricky as the British. For one thing, even they can change a good deal in thirty years. In acknowledgement of this, Mr Mikes has felt bound to write a new guide.At the heart of the book are the important sections on How to Lose an Empire, Become a Colony, and Stop Being an Island. All these themes are brand new. Others are familiar, but required new treatment. Sex could no longer be despatched in the shortest chapter known to literature (ten words) but called for at least a page (Britons whose self-confidence is wobbly had better skip it). The art of getting lost in London has become infinitely more complex than it was, and what is happening to the language is hair-raising. But the native will find that although his self-esteem takes some hard knocks, he ends in a glow of self-congratulation. It seems that when Great Britain finally becomes a desert island it will have its Robinson Crusoe in the shape of George Mikes.Amid all the changes two things remain the same: Nicholas Bentley is still the perfect illustrator for George Mikes's wit, and a special chemistry still exists between Mikes and his adopted country. The chemistry produced the most famous of all his works, and now it has produced the book to rival it.
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 were illustrated by the master of the cartoonists’ art, the late Nicolas Bentley. Here they are, all in one volume, which will make life much easier for today's would-be Brits than it was for those who pervaded them. It is said that a few of the latter actually failed to become indistinguishable from the genuine British article because they found it too tiresome to seek out three separate books: a misfortune that need never again occur to anyone.
George Mikes describes the strange things the English do and say.
