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The Diary of a Nobody (Paperback)
George Grossmith (author), Weedon Grossmith (author)Published: 06/05/2010
‘The funniest book in the world’ Evelyn Waugh
Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable home in Holloway with his dear wife Carrie, from where he commutes to his job of valued clerk at a reputable bank in the City. Unfortunately neither his dear friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, nor the butcher, the greengrocer's boy and the Lord Mayor seem to recognise Mr Pooter's innate gentility, and his disappointing son Lupin has gone and got himself involved with a most unsuitable fiancee...
George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel, perfectly illustrated by Weedon, is a glorious, affectionate caricature of the English middle-class at the end of nineteenth century.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099540885
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 127 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
There's a universality about Pooter that touches everybody...fits into the tradition of absurd humour that the British do well, which started with Jonathan Swift and runs through Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear to Monty Python - Jasper Fforde, Time Out
The funniest book in the world - Evelyn Waugh
Pooter himself is as gentle as you could wish, a wonderful character, genuinely lovable. The book is beautifully constructed - Andrew Davies, Glasgow Herald
One of those rare books that nails a cultural archetype and has won the affection of successive generations - The Times
The funniest book about a certain type of Englishness...there is a whole line of these comic characters like Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army, or Basil Fawlty - Hugh Bonneville, The Times
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