More Heroic Failures

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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. 

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