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English Humour for Beginners

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

English Humour for Beginners

By George Mikes

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About the book

If 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 - helpfully divided into 'Theory' and 'Practice' - with a comic precision that does his ...Show more

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ISBN

9780241978542

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2016

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English Humour for Beginners

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Paperback

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