The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith
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The Diary of a Nobody

Author: George and Weedon Grossmith

Narrator: Martin Jarvis

Unabridged: 4 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 04/01/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor


Synopsis

This delightful Victorian comic diary is a classic of English Humour which has never been out of print since its first publication in 1892. City clerk Charles Pooter asks: ‘Why should I not publish my diary… because I do not happen to be a “somebody”?’ He proceeds to catalogue all the social clangers he makes unwittingly as he bumbles his way through life, yet a sympathy develops for Pooter in the face of it all. The Diary of a Nobody is an ideal text for the talents of Martin Jarvis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by MJ

11 April Sat down to write a capsule review of The Diary of a Nobody. Interrupted by a loving thump at the door. It was Mark Nicholls from my review of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, a piece of spoof metafiction that ranks as my most liked GR review. I studied my 23-year-old self......more

Brilliant! A book filled with unimportant characters, not about anything in particular, in which nothing much happens. Well not exactly, this is a satire on being ordinary. Admittedly modern readers may not find it as funny as when it was first published in Punch in the late 19th century, as the cont......more