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The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Popular Classics) - Softcover

George Grossmith

 
9780140621570: The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Popular Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140621571 ISBN 13: 9780140621570
Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

Mr Pooter's diary is a faithful record of the daily grind in respectable suburbia and the city office. It tells of his constant war against insolent tradesmen and impudent junior clerks, his incomprehensible son Lupin, and his over-whelming feeling that the biggest joke is on him.

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Review

"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)

Book Description

'Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a 'Somebody' - why my diary should not be interesting' Charles Pooter

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Publisher
Penguin Classics
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0140621571
ISBN 13 
9780140621570
Binding
Paperback
Illustrator
Weedon Grossmith
Number of pages
240