# How to be an Alien

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- Book: [How to be an Alien](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-mikes/how-to-be-an-alien) ([How to be an Alien.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-mikes/how-to-be-an-alien.md))
- Authors: [George Mikes](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-mikes)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4002-514-9
- Pages: 96
- Published: 1973-07-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.