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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.'The spoof diary of a lower-middle-class London clerk, The Diary of a Nobody was first serialized in the legendary magazine of humour and satire, Punch, in 1888-89. It was published as a book in 1892, and has never been out of print since. Th...

Excerpt from A Commission: A Comedy in One Act An artist's studio, dark wooden panelling round walls seven feet high. From top of panelling to ceiling, a plain light brown distemper, window L. Six feet wide, large gauze panes, four feet from stage, fourteen feet high, light is arranged from box limes off L. Through window, to fall on throne chair R. C., open lime for backing to window. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds ...

Charles Pooter is a lower middle-class clerk who is self-important, socially inept and gaffe-prone. This diary chronicles his and his wife, Carrie, his son, Lupin, and Lupin's highly unsuitable fiancee, Daisy Mutlar's lives.

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This classic of late-Victorian social comedy is now available in a richly contextualized Broadview edition.

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Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Porter. Porter's diary chronicles his daily routine, which includes small parties, minor embarrassments, home improvements, and his relationship with a troublesome son. The small minded but essentially decent suburban world he inhabits is both hilarious and painfully familiar. This edition features Weedon Gross...

bTitle:/b A Woman with a History. A novel.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with...

Considerada como uno de los grandes clásicos de la literatura humorística británica y publicada por primera vez en castellano.Charles Pooter, narrador y protagonista, es un personaje gris con aspiraciones a entrar en la alta sociedad, de la que imita todo lo que está a su alcance, y al mismo tiempo es un pobre hombre perseguido por la mala suerte. De sus controversias y comflictos con el servicio, su esposa y su joven y díscolo sobrino surgen ...

Special Large Print edition, with easy to read text, of George and Weedon Grossmith's classic work.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Charles Pooter and his wife Caroline have just moved to a new home. Mr Pooter is a City of London clerk with Perkupps. The couple have a 20-year-old son, Lupin, who works as a bank clerk in Oldham. From the beginning a pattern is set whereby the small vexations of the Pooters' daily lives are recounted, many of them arising from Pooter's unconscious self-importance and pomposity. Trouble with servants, tradesmen and office juniors, together wi...

Since its first publication in 1892, this delightful Victorian comic diary has never been out of print. City clerk Charles Pooter asks: ?Why should I not publish my diary...because I do not happen to be a ?somebody??? He proceeds to catalog all the social clangers he makes unwittingly as he bumbles his way through life, yet sympathy develops for Pooter in the face of it all. The classic ?English Humor? of The Diary of a Nobody is an ideal text...

Excerpt from From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith, Written by Himself When I began this little book it was from a few rough notes jotted down at random, sometimes with a View to an incident in a play, or to enable me to remember the story to which it referred, but one day it occurred to me that perhaps a few of my reminis cences might be somewhat entertaining to my friends and also to the Great Public, to whom Iowe so much....

The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and values has remained in print, a source of delight to generations of readers, and a major literary influence, much imitated but never equalled.If you don't recognise yourself at some point in The Diary you are probably less than huma...

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