# How to be an Alien

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- Authors: [George Mikes](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-mikes)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1973-07-26

## Description

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.

## Editions

### How to be an Alien

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4002-514-9
- Pages: 96
- Published: 1973-07-26
- Language: en_GB

### How to be an Alien

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4193-044-2
- Published: 1973-07-26
- Language: en_GB