The Diary of a Nobody - Softcover

Grossmith, George; Grossmith, Weedon

 
9780099540885: The Diary of a Nobody
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099540886 ISBN 13: 9780099540885
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

‘The funniest book in the world’ Evelyn Waugh

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

George and Weedon Grossmith were born in London in 1847 and 1852 respectively to a theatrical family who were friends with Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. George became a popular composer and performer of comic songs as well as a successful actor. Weedon trained as a painter at the Slade and the Royal Academy, but soon turned to acting like his brother.
The Diary of a Nobody began life as a series of columns the brothers wrote together for Punch which they later expanded into a novel. It was published in 1892, with Weedon's illustrations, to instant acclaim and has remained in print ever since. George died in 1912, followed by his brother in 1919.

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099540886
ISBN 13 
9780099540885
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Anzahl der Seiten
176
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