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The Diary of A Nobody

George Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Pooter. Pooter'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.

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  • "Diary of a nobody"
  • "Diary of Nobody"
  • "Dairy of a nobody"
  • "Diary of a Nobody"

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  • "The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialized in a Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first 'blog'; being a record of the simplicities and humiliations in the life of this mundane, but upright, city clerk, who had an incontestable faith that a record of his daily life was worth preserving for posterity. Set in about 1891 in Holloway, which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind, the authors contrive a record of the manners, customs and experiences of the late Victorian era. The bare record of facts, simply recorded, manages to be humorous rather than dull, no doubt because of the usual occupations of the authors. George Grossmith (1847-1912) was an actor and comedian. Weedon Grossmith (1852-1919) was an entertainer and illustrated the original work."
  • "Mr Pooter, employé de banque dans la City, et sa femme vivent dans une petite maison de la banlieue de Londres, à l'époque victorienne. Décidant de tenir son journal, Pooter nous conte ses mésaventures quotidiennes, avec les fournisseurs, les voisins encombrants et les mille tâches domestiques, toutes du plus haut comique."
  • "George Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Pooter. Pooter'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."@en
  • ""[Charles] 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."--Publisher description."
  • "Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Pooter. Pooter'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 Grossmith's illustrations and an introduction which discusses the story's social context."@en
  • "First serialized in Punch in 1888, The Diary of a Nobody is the record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter a mundane and upright city clerk his family, friends, and small circle of acquaintances. It is a humorous record of the manners, customs, and experiences of Londoners in the late-Victorian era. The term Pooterish," which denotes someone who takes himself excessively seriously has remained a part of British parlance ever since. The book itself has never been out of print since its original publication in 1892."
  • "Humorně vyprávěné příběhy rodiny úředníčka Pootera-Nuly, jehož životní ctižádostí je pozvednout se mezi vyšší úředníky a společenskou smetánku městečka. Způsob, jakým toho on i jeho syn docilují, je satirou na společensképoměry Anglie."
  • "A satire of Victorian-era England, this hugely amusing tale spans 15 months in the life of Charles Pooter in the form of a diary. The narrator is nobody particularly special; in fact, he is incredibly run of the mill: a middle-class employee of the city of London with social aspirations. Throughout the pages of his diary, unforgettable characters begin to appear, such as his wife Carrie, his son Lupin, his friends Mr. Cummings and Mr. Gowing, and Lupin's girlfriend Daisy Mutlar--as do anecdotes rife with innocence and joie de vivre that reflect his affinity for wordplay and jokes. This hilarious illustrated novel was first seen in installments in Punch magazine between 1888 and 1889 before being published as a book in 1892, and today it is considered a classic work of humor."
  • "Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable home in Holloway with his dear wife Carrie, from where he commutes to his job of valued clerk at a reputable bank in the City. Unfortunately neither his dear friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, nor the butcher, the greengrocer's boy and the Lord Mayor seem to recognise Mr Pooter's innate gentility, and his disappointing son Lupin has gone and got himself involved with a most unsuitable fiancee...George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel, perfectly illustrated by Weedon, is a glorious, affectionate caricature of the English middle-class at the end of nineteenth century."
  • "Gefingeerd dagboek van een kantoorklerk, die zich door zijn overdreven standsbewustzijn telkens belachelijk maakt."
  • "'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 ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, impudent young clerks and wayward friends? And what is he to do about his son Lupin's distinctly unsuitable choice of bride? However hard he tries, life piles its little mishaps on his head - but he's not about to give up."
  • "This uproarious comic novel is a must-read for lovers of classic British humor. The Diary of a Nobody follows the travails of one Charles Pooter, a middle-class clerk with high-society aspirations and outrageous delusions of grandeur. You'll laugh out loud at Pooter's pretentiousness and plenteous faux pas as he attempts to move up the treacherous ladder of social class in nineteenth-century London."@en
  • "|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 Diary of a Nobody (1892) created a cultural icon, an English archetype. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to be seen as the epitome of English suburban life. His diary chronicles encounters with difficult tradesmen, the delights of home improvements, small parties, minor embarrassments, and problems with his troublesome son. The suburban world he."@en
  • ""[Charles] Pooter'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."--Publisher description."@en
  • "Mr. Pooter, a middle class, middle-aged city clerk in Victorian England, chronicles his daily domestic and social frustrations in humorous detail."
  • "Una sátira de la Inglaterra victoriana, este divertidísimo relato abarca al estilo de diario 15 meses en la vida de Charles Pooter. El narrador no es nadie particularmente especial; de hecho, es más bien alguien sumamente común y corriente: un empleado de clase media de la ciudad de Londres con aspiraciones sociales. Por las páginas de su diario van apareciendo personajes inolvidables como su esposa Carrie, su hijo Lupin, sus amigos el Sr. Cummings y el Sr. Gowing y la novia de Lupin, Daisy Mutlar--además de anécdotas llenas de inocencia y de alegría por la vida que reflejan su gusto por los juegos de palabras y los chistes. Esta comiquísima novela ilustrada aparecioó por primera vez en entregas en la revista Punch entre 1888 y 1889 antes de ser publicada como libro en 1892, y hoy por hoy se considera una obra clásica del humor."

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  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Imaginary diaries"
  • "Classical fiction"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Classic fiction"
  • "Diary fiction"
  • "Diary fiction"@en
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Speeches, oratory"@en
  • "English prose"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Online resources"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Anglické prózy"
  • "Fiktivní deníky"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Electronic audiobooks"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Children's stories"@en

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  • "Xiao ren wu ri ji"
  • "The Diary of A Nobody"@en
  • "Xiao ren wu ri ji = The Diary of Nobody"
  • "The Diary of a Nobody. : [Reprinted, with additions, from Punch] ... With illustrations by W. Grossmith"@en
  • "Deník pana Nuly"
  • "Dení Pana Nuly"
  • "The Diary of a Nobody ... With illustrations by Weedon Grossmith"@en
  • "小人物日记 = The diary of a nobody"
  • "The diary of a nobody"
  • "The diary of a nobody"@en
  • "Dnevnik nekega nepomembneža"@sl
  • "小人物日记 = The diary of a nobody : 中文导读英文版"
  • "The Diary of a nobody George and Weedon Grossmith"
  • "Diary of a nobody"@en
  • "Diary of a nobody"
  • "Ru he pei yang chao fan neng li"
  • "En mand af betydning"@da
  • "The diary of a nobody : With ill. by Weedon Grossmith"
  • "Journal de personne"
  • "Xiao ren wu ri ji = The diary of a nobody : zhong wen dao du ying wen ban"
  • "小人物日記"
  • "The Diary of a Nobody. [Reprinted, with additions, from Punch] ... With illustrations by W. Grossmith"@en
  • "小人物日记"
  • "The diary of a nobody with illustrations"@en
  • "Xiao ren wu ri ji : zui you qu de yi bu ying wen "blog" = The diary of a nobody"
  • "The Diary of a Nobody ... With illustrations by W. Grossmith"@en
  • "The diary of a nobody : With ill. by Weedon Grossmith. Introd. by Sir John Squire"
  • "The Diary of a Nobody"@en
  • "The Diary of a Nobody"
  • "The diary of nobody"
  • "The diary of a Nobody"
  • "Ei kenenkään päiväkirja"@fi
  • "The Diary of a nobody : With an introd. by Alan Pryce-Jones. Ill. by Weedon Grossmith"
  • "小人物日记 = The Diary of Nobody"
  • "The Diary of a Nobody ... A new edition"@en
  • "Xiao ren wu ri ji = The diary of a nobody"
  • "Diario de un don nadie"
  • "Diario de un don nadie"@es
  • "The Diary of a Nobody ... With illustrations by W. Grossmith, etc. [A reduced photographic reprint of the edition of 1940.]"@en
  • "The diary of a nobody, by george and weedon grossmith"
  • "The diary of a nobody [unabridged]"
  • "Dagboek van een onbenul"
  • "小人物日记 : 最有趣的一部英文"blog" = The diary of a nobody"
  • "The diary of a nobody. With illustrations"@en
  • "The diary of a nobody. With illustrations"
  • "The diary of a nobody : with ill. by Weedon Grossmith"
  • "The Diary of a nobody"@en
  • "The Diary of a nobody"
  • "El diario de un don nadie"@es

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