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The Diary of a Nobody, an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith with illustrations by Weedon, first appeared in the magazine Punch in 1888  89, and was first printed in book form in 1892. It is  considered a classic work of humour and has never been out of print.

The diary is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Mr. Charles Pooter, a middle aged city clerk of lower middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in the fictional 'Brickfield Terrace' in Upper Holloway which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind.  Other characters include his wife Carrie (Caroline), his son Lupin, his  friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, and Lupin's unsuitable fianc, Daisy Mutlar.