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The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith
Weedon Grossmith
出版
Prion
, 1999
主題
Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Humorous / General
Fiction / Literary
Humor / Form / Parodies
ISBN
1853753645
9781853753640
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fSmMSgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"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." So wrote the anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter, who 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 inhabits is hilariously and painfully familiar in its small-mindedness and its essential decency. Wonderfully illustrated with Grossmith's line drawings, this very amusing Victorian comedy created in Charles Pooter a cultual icon and English archetype. Both celebration and critique,
Diary of a Nobody
has often been imitated, but never duplicated.