The Diary of a Nobody

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 the City firm Perkupps, 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... Zobrazit více