| Popis: |
- The updated 1910 edition. - Contains a note from the authors, written 1892. - Features all 33 original illustrations by Weedon Grossmith. - Bonus features: a publisher's note and letters from Lord Roseberry and Augustine Birrell, MP. - An extract from an essay by Hilaire Belloc, MP. - Fully searchable table of contents. - Exquisitely formatted and presented in e-book form. The Grossmith brothers'comedic masterpiece allows us a peek inside the diaries of the absurdly self-important Charles Pooter, a London banker frustrated by life at every turn. Detailing the snubs and disappointments and gaffes that befall the hapless Pooter, The Diary of a Nobody has been an laugh-out-loud success for well over a century. As former prime minister Lord Roseberry says in the notes to this Apostrophe Books edition: “I regard any bedroom I occupy as unfurnished without a copy of it.” |
