Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Pooter. Pooter's diary chronicles his daily routine, which includes small parties, minor embarrassments, home improvements, and his relationship with a troublesome son. The small minded but essentially decent suburban world he inhabits is both hilarious and painfully familiar. This edition features Weedon Grossmith's illustrations and an introduction which discusses the story's social context.
Written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, this is a raucous tale that gives a window to the great British serial comedy. George and Weedon Grossmith were the sons of a court reporter, who was also a part-time stage entertainer.
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel that records the daily events in the lives of a London clerk, Charles Pooter, his wife Carrie, his son Lupin, and numerous friends and acquaintances over a period of 15 months.
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter.
The humors of English suburban life naively revealed by one Charles Pooter, a clerk, who has taken a house in Holloway.
"[...]name, by-the-by, I did not catch, ) round the side entrance.
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I let my head hit the window with a thud and listened to his radio crackle and the dispatcher routinely spit out codes—of domestic disputes and auto theft. The cop said he was taking me straight home, instead of to the station— which I ...
Charles had a difficult relationship with his 20 year old son Lupin. The Diary of Nobody's Son gives Lupin's side of the story. i wish Pa hadn't called his book The Diary of a Nobody.
Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Porter. Porter's diary chronicles his daily routine, which includes small parties,...
However, as he says, this is just his own opinion, but he feels it is one which is not without merit.