English Humour For Beginners

By: George Mikes

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: Comedy & Humor,

ISBN: 9780241978542

SKU: BE501455920297

Pages: 146

Description: "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 is a way of life here. Perfectly placed as an adopted Englishman himself, Mikes delivers his shrewd advice - helpfully divided into "Theory" and "Practice" - with comic precision. Drawing on a trove of examples from our rich comic canon, from Orwell (who said, "Every joke is a tiny revolution") to Oscar Wilde, this is the essential handbook for natives and foreigners alike.