The Diary of a Nobodyby George & Weedon Grossmith | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
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| Pages: | 165 |
| Year of Publication: | 1892 |
| Date Read: | 04/08/1997 |
| Notes: | It purports to be the diary of Charles Pooter, a lower-middle-class individual of the mid-nineteenth century who lives at "The Laurels," Brickfield Terrace, Holloway. This address alone, simultaneously poignant and stifling, reverberates with blandly devastating irony--a note sustained at perfect pitch throughout the book. Pooter is house-proud, thrifty, scrupulous in duty, alive to social niceties and given to the occasional punning witticism, but the story he tells is not quite the story he believes he's telling. |
| My Rating: | 7 |