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The eternally hard-done-by Charles Pooter is one of the most timeless comic characters in English fiction-as alive and well in the real world today as he was when he first appeared in 1892. Mr. Pooter is a well-meaning Victorian clerk and one of London's growing army of lower-middle-class suburbanites set on improving their social standing. Aspiring to posterity, Mr. Pooter embarks on a diary. Throughout its pages, the accident-prone author is drawn into one petty confrontation after another: run-ins with idle tradesmen, insolent office juniors, and abusive neighbors, while simultaneously dealing with his wife's heedless indulgence in flights of fashion and the reckless antics of his son, Lupin. Pooter is a lovably absurd Everyman: quietly self-satisfied, intent on keeping up appearances, yet sublimely ignorant of his own pretensions and snobberies-shortcomings he is only too quick to see in others. His rose-tinted vision of himself is unwittingly exposed at every turn-to hilarious effect.
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The Diary of a Nobody
The eternally hard-done-by Charles Pooter is one of the most timeless comic characters in English fiction-as alive and well in the real world today as he was when he first appeared in 1892. Mr. Pooter is a well-meaning Victorian clerk and one of London's growing army of lower-middle-class suburbanites set on improving their social standing. Aspiring to posterity, Mr. Pooter embarks on a diary. Throughout its pages, the accident-prone author is drawn into one petty confrontation after another: run-ins with idle tradesmen, insolent office juniors, and abusive neighbors, while simultaneously dealing with his wife's heedless indulgence in flights of fashion and the reckless antics of his son, Lupin. Pooter is a lovably absurd Everyman: quietly self-satisfied, intent on keeping up appearances, yet sublimely ignorant of his own pretensions and snobberies-shortcomings he is only too quick to see in others. His rose-tinted vision of himself is unwittingly exposed at every turn-to hilarious effect.
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ISBN-13: | 9781546981978 |
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Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
Publication date: | 05/28/2017 |
Pages: | 64 |
Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.13(d) |
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