A Handbook for Beginners and More Advanced Pupils — By George Mikes [1912-1987].
Preface to the 24th impression
Preface
1. How To Be a General Alien
A Warning To Beginners
Introduction
The Weather
Soul and Understatement
Tea
Sex
A Word on Some Publishers
The Language
How Not to be Clever
How to be Rude
How to Compromise
How to be a Hypocrite
About Simple Joys
The National Passion
Three Small Points
2. How To Be a Particular Alien
A Bloomsbury Intellectual
Mayfair Playboy
How to be a Film Producer
Driving Cars
How to Plan a Town
Civil Servant
Journalism, or the Freedom of the Press
If Naturalised
