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GEORGE MIKES
How to be an Alien
DRAWINGS BY NICOLAS BENTLEY
How to be an Alien
GEORGE MIKES
Nicolas Bentley
drew the pictures
Level 3
Retold by Karen Holmes
Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter
Pearson Education limited
Edinburgh Gate, Harlow,
Essex CM20 2JE, England
and Associated Companies throughout the world.
ISBN 0 582 468272
First published by Andre Deutsch 1946
Copyright 1946 by George Mikes and Nicolas Bentley
This adaptation first published by Penguin Books 1998
Published by Addison Wesley Longman Limited and Penguin Books Ltd. 1998
This edition first published 2000
Text copyright © Karen Holmes 1998
All illustrations copyright © Nicolas Bentley 1946
All rights reserved
The moral right of the adapter and of the illustrator has been asserted
Typeset by Digital Type, London
Set in ll/14pt Bembo
Printed in Spain by Mateu Cromo, S. A. Pinto (Madrid)
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Contents
page
Introduction
iv
Preface
1
Part 1 The Most Important Rules
3
Chapter 1 A Warning to Beginners
3
Chapter 2 Introducing People
5
Chapter 3 The Weather
7
Chapter 4 Examples for Conversation
7
Chapter 5 Soul: Not Quite Saying What You Mean 10
Chapter 6 Tea
11
Chapter 7 Sex
12
Chapter 8 The Language
12
Chapter 9 How Not to Be Clever
14
Chapter 10 How to Be Rude
15
Chapter 11 How to Compromise
17
Chapter 12 How to Be a Hypocrite
18
Chapter 13 Small Pleasures
18
Chapter 14 Favourite Things
19
Chapter 15 Remember
21
Part 2 Less Important Rules and some
Special Examples
21
Chapter 16 A Bloomsbury Intellectual
21
Chapter 17 Mayfair Playboy
22
Chapter 18 How to Be a Film-Maker
23
Chapter 19 Driving Cars
24
Chapter 20 Three Games for Bus Drivers
28
Chapter 21 How to Plan a Town
29
Chapter 22 Civil Servants
32
Chapter 23 British Newspapers
35
Chapter 24 If Naturalized
37
Activities
41
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