Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by Ned Halley.
These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features Weedon Grossmith’s original illustrations and an afterword by novelist Paul Bailey.
Special Large Print edition, with easy to read text, of George and Weedon Grossmith's classic work.
The Diary of a Nobody: Large Print By George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter.
This edition features Weedon Grossmith's hilarious illustrations and is complemented by an enjoyable introduction discussing the book's social background and suburban fiction as a genre.
The Diary of a Nobody: Large Print By George and Weedon Grossmith The humors of English suburban life naively revealed by one Charles Pooter, a clerk, who has taken a house in Holloway.
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.
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.
The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith.
This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
This edition of The Diary of a Nobody features Weedon Grossmith's original illustrations; and a Foreword and annotations on the text by novelist E O Higgins.
Pooter's diary accounts his daily routine, which includes parties, minor embarrassments, and relationship with his troublesome son. The book is based in nineteenth century which makes it interesting and worth reading.
Pooter's diary accounts his daily routine, which includes parties, minor embarrassments, and relationship with his troublesome son. The book is based in nineteenth century which makes it interesting and worth reading.
The Diary of a Nobody is written by Victorian actor and journalist George Grossmith and his brother Weedon.
The humors of English suburban life naively revealed by one Charles Pooter, a clerk, who has taken a house in Holloway.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive classic literature collection. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece.
The Diary of a Nobody
This edition contains the original illustrations by Weedon Grossmith and an introduction by Ed Glinert, author of The London Compendium, discussing the novel's serialisation in Punch, the growth of the suburbs and the figure of Mrs Pooter.
The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle classes during the great Victorian Age.