{"product_id":"2026200011485-secondhand-the-diary-of-a-nobody","title":"The Diary Of A Nobody","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a perfectly ordinary man decides his life is worth recording for posterity? The Diary of a Nobody answers that question with devastating comic precision, following Charles Pooter — a modest, self-important City clerk living in Holloway, London — as he documents the mundane triumphs and humiliations of late-Victorian suburban life. Through a series of diary entries, Pooter chronicles his disastrous social encounters, his wayward son Lupin, his long-suffering wife Carrie, and a seemingly endless parade of minor domestic catastrophes, all rendered with a blissful, unshakeable self-satisfaction that makes him one of English literature's most enduring comic creations.\n\nFirst serialised in Punch magazine between 1888 and 1889, this masterpiece of satirical fiction by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith stands as a sharp and affectionate skewering of the aspirational English middle class. The authors wield irony with a surgeon's precision — Pooter's narration is so earnestly oblivious that the comedy practically writes itself, yet beneath the laughter lies a remarkably tender portrait of a man striving for dignity in an indifferent world. This Penguin edition, tied to the acclaimed BBC television adaptation, introduces a new generation of readers to a book that, over a century after its publication, remains as recognisable and wickedly funny as ever — because somewhere, Pooter's spirit endures in all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130845176027,"sku":"2026200011485-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3987ee63-2931-436a-bfde-6d32dac5cf10.png?v=1786591111","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011485-secondhand-the-diary-of-a-nobody","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}