The Diary of a Nobody (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Grossmith, George; Grossmith, Weedon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551117045 ISBN 13: 9781551117041

Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

The Diary of a Nobody, the spoof diary of Charles Pooter, a London clerk, first appeared as a book in 1892 and has never been out of print since. The hilariously trivial doings of the accident-prone Pooter, his wife Carrie and their troublesome son Lupin have inspired many writers since, including the authors of Bridget Jones’s Diary and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. The satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh called it “the funniest book in the world.” This enduring classic of Victorian social comedy is now available in a newly edited Broadview edition.

This edition includes a critical introduction, comprehensive notes on the many historical allusions in the text, and a wide selection of relevant contemporary materials on the clerk’s life, suburbia, spiritualism, and domestic economy. A selection of Weedon Grossmith’s original illustrations also accompanies the novel.

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Peter Morton is Associate Professor of English at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

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The Diary of a Nobody, the spoof diary of Charles Pooter, a London clerk, first appeared as a book in 1892 and has never been out of print since. The hilariously trivial doings of the accident-prone Pooter, his wife Carrie and their troublesome son Lupin have inspired many writers since, including the authors of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. The satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh called it "the funniest book in the world." This enduring classic of Victorian social comedy is now available in a newly edited Broadview edition.

This edition includes a critical introduction, comprehensive notes on the many historical allusions in the text, and a wide selection of relevant contemporary materials on the clerk's life, suburbia, spiritualism, and domestic economy. A selection of Weedon Grossmith's original illustrations also accompanies the novel.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1551117045
• ISBN 13: 9781551117041
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 259
• Herausgeber: Morton Peter
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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