Charles Pooter, a City clerk of no importance whatever, keeps a diary: the tradesmen are insolent, his son is a disappointment, his jokes are unappreciated, and he has just painted the bath red. The Grossmith brothers wrote it for Punch in 1888 — George was the star comedian of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas — and invented the suburban Everyman that English comedy has been rewriting ever since. Fifteen plates by painters including William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais, from cottage interiors to landscapes, mirror the modest domestic world Pooter records.
The Diary of a Nobody : Mr. Pooter of The Laurels, Holloway
Skrevet af George Grossmith og Weedon Grossmith
