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Mr Charles Pooter, of The Laurels, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, is the Nobody in this Victorian diary of everyday life in the suburbs of London. A city clerk, Mr Pooter is at once likeable and laughable. Whether he is getting the shock of his life after painting the bath red, or raging at the Blackfriars Bi-weekly News, or dealing with his effervescent, irrepressible son Lupin, he retains his dignity - but only just !
The other characters - among them Mr Pooter's wife Carrie, his friends Cummings and Gowing (who are always "coming and going"), Mr Perkupp (his principal at the office), and Miss Daisy Mutlar (the object of Lupin's affections) - are always entertaining. This is one of those books you will read again and again.
George Grossmith (1847-1912) was principal comedian with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, creating many of the rôles in the original productions. His brother Weedon Grossmith (1854-1919), who was the illustrator of the diary, was an actor and artist.
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