

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
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
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