The Diary of a Nobody: New Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens) - Paperback

by George Grossmith (Author), Weedon Grossmith (Author)

Having just moved into a fine, six-roomed residence, "the Laurels", the Pooters are ready to begin a new life. Charles, the paterfamilias, a lowly clerk in a City of London firm, begins to keep a diary, one that, over the next fifteen months, will provide a record of the small trials and tribulations - as well as the preoccupations, aspirations and social anxieties - of a late-Victorian family.

Serialized in Punch between 1888 and 1889, and later expanded and illustrated for publication in volume form in 1892, The Diary of a Nobody, the Grossmith brothers' highest achievement, is a comic masterpiece and arguably one of the greatest artistic collaborations of all time.

Author Biography

George Grossmith (1847 - 1912) was a comedian, writer and composer. As an actor, he created many of the most memorable characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. In 1888-89, he wrote the humorous columns that became the novel The Diary of a Nobody in collaboration with his brother Weedon.

Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919) was an artist and stage performer, before turning his hand to fiction with The Diary of a Nobody, which he also illustrated to much acclaim.