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The Diary of a Nobody (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Grossmith, George And Weedon

 
9780199540150: The Diary of a Nobody (Oxford World's Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199540152 ISBN 13: 9780199540150
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

`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.'

The Diary of a Nobody (1892) created a cultural icon, an English archetype. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to be seen as the epitome of English suburban life. His diary chronicles encounters with difficult tradesmen, the delights of home improvements, small parties, minor embarrassments, and problems with his troublesome son. The suburban world he inhabits is hilariously and painfully familiar in its small-mindedness and its essential decency. Both celebration and critique, The Diary of a Nobody has often been imitated, but never bettered. This edition features Weedon Grossmith's hilarious illustrations and is complemented by an enjoyable introduction discussing the book's social background and suburban fiction as a genre.
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kate Flint is is Reader in Victorian and Modern English Literature and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. Her publications include The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (1993) and many articles on early nineteenth and twentieth century fiction and art history.

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Verlag
OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199540152
ISBN 13 
9780199540150
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
143
Herausgeber
Flint Kate
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