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The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Popular Classics) [Paperback]

George Grossmith (Author), Weedon Grossmith (Illustrator)

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Product details

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (23 Feb 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140621571
ISBN-13: 978-0140621570
Product Dimensions: 18 x 10.4 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 481,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Mr Pooter's diary is a faithful record of the daily grind in respectable suburbia and the city office. It tells of his constant war against insolent tradesmen and impudent junior clerks, his incomprehensible son Lupin, and his over-whelming feeling that the biggest joke is on him.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A strong contender..., 23 Jun 2004

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This heart-warming classic is a strong contender for the funniest book ever written. Read it immediately, then buy a second copy as a peace offering for your worst enemy - if it doesn't wipe the snarl off their face, they're a lost cause....

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5.0 out of 5 stars Too delicious for words, 11 Mar 2004

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This is a wonderful book - I chuckled, smirked and slapped my head with delighted exasperation (whilst sitting on crowded commuter train - I am something in The City you know) at Pooter and his bewildered stumbling through the cosmic joke of his existence.

In some ways it is an 'old' book, the obsession with class and position drip through every page, with Pooters inept attempts to maintain or enhance his social position. But in many ways it is about the modern world - the alienated nobody, slogging away in an office, thinking he is better than this - when of course he isn't.

So glorious, that I am considering forming a religion based on the exquisite wisdom found inside this slim volume.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Edwardian farce, 17 Feb 2004

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This book is a little subtle - if you can't read in between the lines then you won't find it funny. If you can then the subtle humour can't help but amuse you. Pooter is lovable, ridiculous, pompous and trivial - a fully rounded character who is quite oblivious to how most of the world perceives him.
A classic.

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1.0 out of 5 stars dull dull dull
Many of your other reviewers present this book to be gentle British humour, which it may be, but to me it was akin to the Office in that it is embarrassing and not funny. Read more

Published 12 months ago by cynic1

5.0 out of 5 stars timelessly sublime
A reviewer of this book mentions Charles Pooter's 'painful dignity' - that's exactly what it is. I've read and reread this book for twenty years now, and it never gets any less... Read more

Published 17 months ago by Alice May

5.0 out of 5 stars So So Funny
Funny l remember buying this book in Lewis's in Manchester in the 70's. It had me howling with laughter on the bus. Read more

Published on 16 Aug 2007 by Robert P. Splaine

4.0 out of 5 stars Humor from yester year doesn't get much better.
A hundred years old and still very amusing. Only surpasses by 'Three men in a boat' for a book of its age. Well worth reading, especially if you are a 'small cog' in the big city.

Published on 27 Sep 2005 by R. Britain

5.0 out of 5 stars Mr Ali Pooter Esq.
As Ali-docious from London himself says, he must be the only person in the world who didn't find this book funny. Read more

Published on 29 Oct 2003 by shdavi

4.0 out of 5 stars Turn of the century comedy still manages to raise a laugh
Diary of a Nobody tells the story (in diary form) of Edwardian clerk Mr Charles Pooter. Mr Pooter is a roaring stereotype of the turn of the century, white-collar, lower-middle... Read more

Published on 26 Aug 2003 by mjruscoe

5.0 out of 5 stars The funniest book in the world ever? Quite possibly.
If you have never read this, I'm jealous. You are in for a treat! Your life will be transformed. Never again will you look at red paint or a humble lupin the same light... Read more

Published on 11 Mar 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget the rest, Pooter's your man!
In many ways, Charles Pooter is not a Nobody. He is an oaf, a buffoon, a clot but he has a position as a City Clerk and at the end of the book is rewarded in a handsome way for... Read more

Published on 18 Feb 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars lovely
This man is probably Adrian Mole's great, great grandfather. This is a lovely, gentle and funny book about the trials and tribulations of a working man and his family trying to... Read more

Published on 6 April 2001 by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley

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