Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Nobody

Release date is 1997-08-01

David Price

"The Diary of a Nobody" by George and Weedon Grossmith is a comic novel published in 1892. It chronicles fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, a London clerk whose inflated sense of self-importance collides constantly with everyday reality. Through daily entries, readers witness his domestic troubles, social mishaps, and minor humiliations as he navigates lower-middle-class Victorian life with his wife Carrie and friends. The humor derives from Pooter's obliviousness to his own pomposity, creating a portrait that resonated immediately with contemporary readers and established a lasting genre of aspirational comedy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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