The Diary of a Nobody

The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a “Somebody” – Charles Pooter of ´The Laurels´, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London – and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age. The roar of laughter which greeted the first serialised publication of The Diary of a Nobody in the magazine Punch in the late 1880s has continued and scarcely diminished ever since. Its evocation of the typical London middle-class suburb of the time is not only irresitibly funny, but is also a document of profound interest to all those with a fascination about the way we were.