Diary of a Nobody (Everyman's Library) - Hardcover

LGeorge And Weedon Grossmith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 046000963X ISBN 13: 9780460009638

Publisher: Folio Society, 1977

Synopsis

In the last decade of the nineteenth century the "Pooters" bought a new house in London and their vanities, triumphs and ambitions are recorded in a fictional comic diary

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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

Edition details

• Publisher: Folio Society
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 046000963X
• ISBN 13: 9780460009638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: John Lawrence
• Number of pages: 288