Diary of a nobody
By: George Grossmith and Weedon Goldsmith
Contributors: Grossmith, Weedon, 1852-1919, author
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781481942249
Description: Diary of a Nobody is near perfect as a piece of English comedy, its humor gentle and subtle, its depiction of character, class, time and location flawless. It fixes forever the late-Victorian world of the respectable Lower Middle Class, populated by clerks, petty merchants and tradesmen, observing it with both objectivity and affection. Though superficially simple, the construction of the narrative is complex in the extreme, with comic situations often being built up over a long period, and with clues carefully planted in earlier sections, only to come to fruition later. It is particularly impressive how the main characters - Pooter himself, his long-suffering and often silly but supportive wife Carrie and his exasperating son Lupin - emerge as rounded characters from apparently simple diary entries and achieve a realism and familiarity as great as any in more serious literature.
Notes: Title from cover.

Weedon Grossmith's name is spelled incorrectly on cover.

Reprint. Originally published: 1892.