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Having just moved into a fine, six-roomed residence, āthe Laurelsā, the Pooters are ready to begin a new life. Charles, the paterfamilias, a lowly clerk in the City firm Perkuppās, begins to keep a diary, one that, over the next fifteen months, will provide a record of the small trials and tribulations ā as well as the preoccupations, aspirations and social anxieties ā 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 brothersā highest achievement, is a comic masterpiece and arguably one of the greatest artistic collaborations of all time.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Classics Evergreens is a series of popular classics. All the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus and extra reading material, including a section of photographs and notes. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition (or collated from the most authoritative editions or manuscripts) and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.
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Having just moved into a fine, six-roomed residence, āthe Laurelsā, the Pooters are ready to begin a new life. Charles, the paterfamilias, a lowly clerk in the City firm Perkuppās, begins to keep a diary, one that, over the next fifteen months, will provide a record of the small trials and tribulations ā as well as the preoccupations, aspirations and social anxieties ā 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 brothersā highest achievement, is a comic masterpiece and arguably one of the greatest artistic collaborations of all time.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Alma Classics Evergreens is a series of popular classics. All the titles in the series are provided with an extensive critical apparatus and extra reading material, including a section of photographs and notes. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition (or collated from the most authoritative editions or manuscripts) and edited using a fresh, intelligent editorial approach. With an emphasis on the production, editorial and typographical values of a book, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading the classics.
