Diary of a Nobody - Grossmith

[Kristel]

English comic novel set in 1890's is a novel of Charles Pooter, a clerk. Through its humor the reader gets a picture of 1890 and what it is to be neither upper social or lower social class. Remarkably, could fit yet today.

[Leni]

Gentle parody on the diary genre and late 19th century English middle class. Enjoyable.

[Patrick]

Pre-2016 review:

**

Boom-tish! this was the diary of an ordinary man with his ordinary family and his ordinary friends, going through mishaps, crazes and lame jokes at the end of the Victorian era. I've always had an issue with British humor, even worse when it is Victorian humor. It was not really funny, just a repetition of lame play on words, lame situations, lame characters (apart from Lupin). Its main redeeming feature was that it was short. Should have been titled Diary of Nothing.