Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: The Diary of a Nobody, the object of the examination of this work, is a fictitious story of a clerk living in London in the 1880's, written by George Grossmith. It is the record of fifteen months in the life of Mr. Charles Pooter presented in a form of a diary. Every entry of the dairy is packed with details of trivial moments of his life and as the reviewer for The New York Times wrote, the book consists of "the small triumphs and minor humiliations and homely...