Book Description

The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.

The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle classes during the great Victorian Age.

From AudioFile

The greatness of George and Weedon Grossmith's masterpiece of comic irony, THE DIARY OF A NOBODY, rests to a large extent on perceptions of class. 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. Frederick Davidson's impeccable reading is truly inspired, in perfect unity with the Pooteresque view of the world.

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6

喬治・格羅史密斯（George Grossmith, 1847-1912），幽默小品（短劇）和歌麯的創作者、錶演者與演唱者，當時有名的多伊利・卡特劇團的颱柱，是傑齣的喜劇天纔，著有自傳《大眾小醜》。

威登・格羅史密斯（Weedon Grossmith，1854-1919），喬治的弟弟，劇作傢、畫傢和大眾喜劇演員；他不僅與哥哥喬治共同寫作瞭“日記”，還為《小人物日記》畫瞭插圖。