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The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Classics) Book
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Foyles
Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody is edited with an introduction and notes by Ed Glinert in Penguin Classics. Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride. In the bumbling, absurd, yet ultimately endearing character of Pooter, the Grossmith brothers created a wonderful portrait of the class system and the inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle-class suburbia - one which sends up the late Victorian crazes for Aestheticism, spiritualism and bicycling, as well as the fashion for publishing diaries by anybody and everybody. 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. George Grossmith (1847-1912) initially worked as a journalist, reporting Police Court proceedings for The Times. In 1870 he began his career as a singer and entertainer, creating some of the most memorable characters in Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas. Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919) brother of George, was educated at the Slade and the Royal Academy with a view to following a career as a painter, and exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery and the Royal Academy. Joining a theatre company in 1885, he toured the provinces and America. The best-known of his many plays, The Night of the Party, was published in 1901.
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Play
The Diary Of A Nobody began as a serial in "Punch" and the book which followed in 1892 has never been out of print. The Grossmith brothers not only created an immortal comic character but produced a clever satire of their society. Mr Pooter is an office clerk and upright family man in a dull 1880s suburb. His diary is a wonderful portrait of the class system and the inherent snobbishness of the suburban middle classes. It sends up contemporary crazes for Aestheticism spiritualism and bicycling as well as the fashion for publishing diaries by anybody and everybody.
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BookDepository
The Diary of a Nobody : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140437324 : : 26 Aug 1999 : Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, not to mention his devil-may-care son Lupin with his unsuitable choice of bride.
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Blackwell
An office clerk and upright family man in a dull 1880s London suburb, Mr Pooter was nonetheless confident that others would find his life interesting. His confidence was not misplaced. The Diary of a Nobody was first serialized in Punch and the...
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Penguin
'I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a ''Somebody'' - why my diary should not be interesting' Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life.
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Pickabook
George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith (Illus)
- 0140437320
- 9780140437324
- George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith
- 28 August 2003
- Penguin Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 256
- New Ed
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