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George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

 
9781604247114: The Diary of a Nobody

Synopsis

Grossmith was an English writer, painter, actor and playwright. He wrote Diary of a Nobody in 1892. This comic novel first appeared in serial form in 1888 in the magazine Punch. Charles Pooter was a lower class city clerk who kept this diary. Pooter's gaffes and self-importance provide many humorous incidents. The word Pooterism has come to mean one who takes himself too seriously.

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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. My only regret is that I did not commence it when I was a youth.

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