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The Diary of a Nobody
George Grossmith · Weedon Grossmith
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This comic novel presents the fictional diary of Charles Pooter, a lower-middle-class London clerk, recording the small domestic mishaps and social anxieties of his everyday suburban life. It suits readers interested in Victorian literature, English social comedy, and satire.
George Grossmith
George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades. As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines.
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