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Diary of a Nobody

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:22:36 +0000

‘I fail to see’, writes suburban bank clerk Charles Pooter ‘- because I do not happen to be a «Somebody» — why my diary should not be interesting.’This comic masterpiece of 1892 records the life of an ordinary man, the putative Samuel Pepys of his day, who rather pompously paints a picture of himself that is both unwittingly hilarious and also most endearing. The accident-prone Pooter lives in a house called ‘The Laurels’ in the London suburb of Holloway and this diary is a catalogue of his triumphs and disasters, including run-ins with uppity tradesmen, wince-making jokes he shares with his ‘dear wife’, hapless attempts at DIY, and clashes with his louche son Lupin over his unsuitable choice of fiancee.To give him his due, Pooter always tries to make the best of everything, but his efforts to communicate in print end up as a razor-sharp satire on the Victorian age, its fashionable preoccupations and endless small snobberies. Evelyn Waugh called it ‘the funniest book in the world’.

Diary of a Nobody

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 10:37:09 +0000

The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more than a century this wonderfully comic portrayal of suburban life and values has remained in print, a source of delight to generations of readers, and a major literary influence, much imitated but never equalled.If you don’t recognise yourself at some point in The Diary you are probably less than human. If you can read it without laughing aloud you have no sense of humour.

The Diary of a Nobody = Дневник незначительного лица: на англ.яз. Grossmith W.

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:12:46 +0000

Автор: Grossmith W., «The Diary of a Nobody = Дневник незначительного лица: на англ.яз»: Джордж Гроссмит — яркий комический актёр, автор и исполнитель весьма популярных в своё время скетчей и песен, автор либретто многих оперетт. Его младший брат Уидон Гроссмит — талантливый карикатурист, драматург и одарённый актер. «Дневник незначительного лица» — это не просто настоящая классика жанра английского юмора, но всей английской прозы в целом. Остроумные фразочки, курьёзные ситуации, незатейливые, но, вместе с тем, колоритные персонажи вплетаются в настоящую паутину жизни дневниковых записок и заметок на злобу дня. Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!