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.
Engels
Malvina of Brittany
Count Bunker : Being a Bald Yet Veracious Chronicle Containing Some Further Particulars of Two Gentlemen Whose Previous Careers Were Touched Upon in a Tome Entitled "The Lunatic at Large"
The Voice of the City : Further Stories of the Four Million
The Dolly Dialogues
Kent Knowles : Quahaug
The Depot Master
The Landloper : The Romance of a Man on Foot
When Egypt Went Broke : A Novel
Kilo : Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent
The Professional Aunt
The Enchanted Typewriter