The Diary of a Nobody Victorian Comedy of Suburban Life and Social Blunders
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
05.11.2026
Verlag
Library of AlexandriaSeitenzahl
142 (Printausgabe)
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201 KB
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781808304675
Charles Pooter takes his dignity seriously. Unfortunately, his family, friends, and daily circumstances do not always cooperate.
In The Diary of a Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith give an ordinary London clerk the space to record his opinions, ambitions, and domestic troubles-and let the comedy emerge from what he fails to notice. Pooter wants a respectable home, agreeable company, and proper recognition. Instead, small misunderstandings and awkward encounters repeatedly disturb his carefully maintained sense of importance.
Set in Victorian suburban London, this comic novel follows Pooter, his wife Carrie, and their irreverent son Lupin through the everyday business of family and social life. Its diary form brings readers close to a narrator whose sincerity is both his charm and his undoing. Beneath the jokes about manners and status lies an affectionate portrait of someone trying to matter. The distance between how Pooter sees himself and how others see him remains familiar to anyone who has worried about making the right impression.
What readers find inside:
- An unwitting comic hero - Charles Pooter reveals more about himself than he intends as he records the events of his day.
- Family friction - Lupin's cheek and independence challenge his father's expectations of proper conduct.
- Social ambition - Visits, acquaintances, and attempts to impress expose the anxieties behind middle-class respectability.
- Domestic misadventures - Ordinary household concerns become occasions for wounded pride and dry comedy.
- Affectionate satire - The novel finds absurdity in self-importance without losing sight of the person beneath it.
A rewarding choice for readers of British comic fiction, lovers of Victorian social satire, and anyone who enjoys a narrator whose blind spots are part of the pleasure.
Step into Pooter's household and discover how much comedy an ordinary day can hold.
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