Author: Grossmith, George; Joint Author: Grossmith, Weedon; Illustrator: Grossmith, Weedon
Oxford World's Classics (Paperback); Paperback; Standard Hardcover size; Line Drawings, Bibliography
174 pages
Published: July 1998
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192833278

Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Porter--whose diary chronicles his daily routine. The small minded but essentially decent suburban world he inhabits is both hilarious and painfully familiar.The fictional chronicles of the anxious, accident-prone, and very English Charles Pooter. Anxious, accident-prone, occasionally waspish, Charles Pooter has come to be seen as the epitome of English suburban life. His diary chronicles encounters with difficult tradesmen, the delights of home improvements, small parties, minor embarrassments, and problems with his troublesome son.