Diary of a Nobody (Wordsworth Classics)
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Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith. The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a « Somebody » – Charles Pooter of ‘The Laurels’, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London – and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age.
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Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith. The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a « Somebody » – Charles Pooter of ‘The Laurels’, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London – and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle class during the Great Victorian age.
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