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- ISBN 9781847495273
- Weight: 246g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2026
- Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
