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More Heroic Failures Of course, some people are successful — clever, unusual people like Einstein, Mozart, Steven Spielberg. But this book is not for them . . . How badly can people do things, if they really try? In The Book of Heroic Failures you met the world’s worst tourist — Mr Nicholas Scotti, the man who landed in New York and thought it was Rome. You read about the uselessness of Mr R. E. de Bruycker, the spy who gave the enemy more information than he got from them. You read about the famous Mr Philip McCutchcon, the man with one eye and one leg who became one of the world’s poorest thieves. These are some of the greatest failures of all time, people who have been better at doing things badly than anyone else in the world. They are more than ordinary failures — they are heroes. Now, in More Heroic Failures, you can read more great examples of how not to do anything right. There are the British football players who lost 21-0 to SVW Mainz of Germany. There is the great Norwegian, Mr Teigan, singer of the worst European Song Show song of 1978. And Dr Brian Richards of Deal, England, one of the unluckiest lovers there has ever been. Stephen Pile wrote The Book of Heroic Failures in 1979 and said immediately, “I will never write another book about failures.” Soon after that, he wrote More Heroic Failures. Mr Pile decided never to become a writer many years ago, not long before he began writing for newspapers and wrote his first book. He lives in Richmond, a part of London. He once tried to live outside of London, but failed. He is unable to do a great many things. OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES Level 1