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Average rating3.5
Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Porter. Porter's diary chronicles his daily routine, which includes small parties, minor embarrassments, home improvements, and his relationship with a troublesome son. The small minded but essentially decent suburban world he inhabits is both hilarious and painfully familiar. This edition features Weedon Grossmith's illustrations and an introduction which discusses the story's social context. Kate Flint is is Reader in Victorian and Modern English Literature and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. Her publications include The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (1993) and many articles on early nineteenth and twentieth century fiction and art history.
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Fond of his own jokes
can't be trusted with champagne
cheap, but still a snob.
If life is a collection of experiences, good and ill, through this lens my life is demonstrably worse off by this experience
It was mildly amusing sometimes, but I just want looking forward to getting back to it at all. I think it was probably better in its original serial form in the newspaper.
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The copyright date on this book is 1892, but the story feels as fresh as yesterday. Funny. A little sad. And, most of all, insightful.
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