The Diary of a Nobody: Large Print Edition - Softcover

Grossmith, George And Weedon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 154547155X ISBN 13: 9781545471555

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

THE CLASSIC COMIC NOVEL Victorian clerk Mr Pooter decides to keep a diary in the hope of showing himself to be a great diarist. Mr Pooter's life is full of suburban Victorian middle-class angst, social climbing and embarrassment, as he goes through the daily drudgery of Victorian life. A classic comedy of manners which remains as fresh and vibrant as it was when it was first published.

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Review

Sensational... It's a rare ability to render an audience helpless with laughter and crying with emotion at the same moment. Hugh Osborne's new adaptation of the Victorian comic classic The Diary of a Nobody has this ability in spades. --whatsonstage.com

Perkily inventive, highly pleasing, gloriously funny... while it shows clear signs of indebtedness to the skittish, playful aesthetic of that estimable long-runner The 39 Steps, Osborne's adaptation still possesses heaps of its own irreverent originality. --Telegraph

About the Author

George and Weedon Grossmith were brothers, best remembered for their 1892 comic novel, The Diary of a Nobody, which they co-authored, with illustrations by Weedon. George Grossmith was also famous as a music hall performer (he created a series of memorable characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan), and as a writer and composer.

Hugh Osborne is a former university lecturer, now an actor and writer. He has appeared in numerous tours and West End shows, and his adaptation of Diary of a Nobody was a hit when it premiered at Royal & Derngate, Northampton, in 2011.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 154547155X
• ISBN 13: 9781545471555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198