Learn how to be poor from a realexpert...A lifelong pauperhimself, George Mikes teaches poverty with panache, enthusiasm and wit.Realizing the disadvantages of wealth at an early age, in later years he hasperfected his techniques for the avoidance of this unhappy state and noweagerly imparts his hard-won knowledge. In chapters headed ‘Beware of Money’,‘Meannessi and ‘Bargains’ he warns of the private habits that can lead to theunforeseen acquisition of wealth; having instructed us in these basic pauper’srules, he goes on to deal with the more sophisticated matter of wearing yourpoverty with becoming grace.Subtle, ironic andmarvellously funny, George Mikes’s review of the money trap should convert themost strident millionaire to a state of abject-, and happy — poverty.Cover illustrated byLarry