The Diary of a Nobody

The Diary of a Nobody is a classic 1892 comic novel by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, originally serialized in Punch magazine. It chronicles fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, a pompous yet endearing London clerk living in suburban Holloway with his wife Carrie and their wayward son Lupin. Through Pooter’s self-important diary entries, the book humorously captures everyday mishaps, social pretensions, minor embarrassments with neighbors like Gowing and Cummings, and family tensions, offering a satirical portrait of lower-middle-class Victorian life marked by vanity, small triumphs, and inevitable humiliations.