It may be one of the funniest books ever written. He is taken advantage of, he worries about his terribly modern son and the fast company he keeps, and he is generally dogged by misfortune. In that time the socially awkward Mr Pooter experiences mishaps, misunderstandings, insults and humiliations. Mr Charles Pooter, middle-aged Victorian Everyman and clerk in the City accounting house of Mr Perkupp, chronicles fifteen months in his life from the time he and his wife Carrie move into a new suburban house in North London. It first appeared in 1888-89 as an occasional serial in Punch, and an expanded version appeared as a book in 1892. My only regret is that I did not commence it when I was a youth.Ī comic novel by George Grossmith with illustrations by his brother Weedon Grossmith, written in the form of a journal. Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see-because I do not happen to be a 'Somebody'-why my diary should not be interesting.
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