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How to be an Alien

Anglia papucsban - A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced pupils/Kézikönyv kezdőknek és haladóknak

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Kiadó: Andre Deutsch Limited
Kiadás helye: London
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Kötés típusa: Fűzött kemény papírkötés
Oldalszám: 88 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 19 cm x 12 cm
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PREFACE TO THE 24th IMPRESSION
The reception given to this book when it first appeared in the autumn of 1946, was at once a pleasant surprise and a disappointment for me. A surprise, because the... Tovább

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PREFACE TO THE 24th IMPRESSION
The reception given to this book when it first appeared in the autumn of 1946, was at once a pleasant surprise and a disappointment for me. A surprise, because the reception was so kind; a disappointment for the same reason.
Let me explain.
The first part of this statement needs little amplification. Even people who are not closely connected with the publishing trade will be able to realise that it is very nice— I'm sorry, I'd better be a litde more English: a not totally unpleasant thing for a completely unknown author to run into three impressions within a few weeks of publication and thereafter into another twenty-one.
What is my grievance, then? It is that this book has completely changed the picture I used to cherish of myself. This was to be a book of defiance. Before its publication I felt myself a man who was going to tell the English where to get off. I had spoken my mind regardless of consequences; I thought I was brave and outspoken and expected either to go unnoticed or to face a storm. But no storm came. I expected the English to be up in arms against me but they patted me on the back; I expected the British nation to rise in wrath but all they said, was: 'quite amusing'. It was indeed a bitter disappointment.
While the Rumanian Radio was serialising (without my permission) How to be an Alien as an anti-British tract, the Central Office of Information rang me up here in London and asked me to allow the book to be translated into Polish for the benefit of those many Polish refugees who were then settling in this country. 'We want our friends to see us in this light,' the man said on the telephone. This was hard to bear for my militant and defiant spirit. 'But it's not such a favourable light,' I protested feebly. 'It's a very human light and that is the most favourable,' retorted the official. I was crushed. Vissza

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CONTENTS
PREFACE TO THE 24TH IMPRESSION page 7
PREFACE II
I. How to be a General Alien 14
a warning to beginners 14
introduction 17
the weather 20
soul and understatement 24
tea 26
sex 29
a word on some publishers 30
the language 31
how not to be clever 36
how to be rude 39
how to compromise 42
how to be a hypocrite 45
about simple joys 46
the national passion 48
three small points 50
II. How to be a Particular Alien 52
a bloomsbury intellectual 52
mayfair playboy 58
how to be a film producer 60
driving cars 66
three games for bus drivers 70
how to plan a town 72
civil servant 78
journalism 82
if naturalised 86

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