Having just moved into a fine, six-roomed residence, the Laurels, the Pooters are ready to begin a new life. Charles, the paterfamilias, a lowly clerk in the City firm Perkupps, begins to keep a diary, one that, over the next fifteen months, will provide a record of the small trials and tribulations as well as the preoccupations, aspirations and social anxieties 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 brothers 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. About the Author George Grossmith (1847 - 1912) was a comedian, writer and composer. As an actor, he created many of the most memorable characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. In 1888-89, he wrote the humorous columns that became the novel The Diary of a Nobody in collaboration with his brother Weedon. Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919) was an artist and stage performer, before turning his hand to fiction with The Diary of a Nobody, which he also illustrated to much acclaim.
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