The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious ...
The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.
The diary is that of someone who acknowledges that he is not a "somebody" - Charles Pooter, a clerk in the city of London, chronicles with often hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle classes during the great Victorian Age.
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The greatness of George and Weedon Grossmith's masterpiece of comic irony, THE DIARY OF A NOBODY, rests to a large extent on perceptions of class. It purports to be the diary of Charles Pooter, a lower-middle-class individual of the mid-nineteenth century who lives at "The Laurels," Brickfield Terrace, Holloway. This address alone, simultaneously poignant and stifling, reverberates with blandly devastating irony--a note sustained at perfect pitch throughout the book. Pooter is house-proud, thrifty, scrupulous in duty, alive to social niceties and given to the occasional punning witticism, but the story he tells is not quite the story he believes he's telling. Frederick Davidson's impeccable reading is truly inspired, in perfect unity with the Pooteresque view of the world.
"You,dear old Charlie,are not handsome,but you are good,which is far more noble."
I gave her a kiss,and she said:"I wonder if there will be any dancing?I have not danced with you for years."
I cannot tell what induced me to do it,but I seized her round the waist,and we were silly enough to be executing a wild kind of polka when Sarah entered,grinning,and said:"There is a man,mum,at the door who wants to know if you want any good coals." (查看原文)
作为一个《越狱》迷，我一直迷恋那段情节：米帅的哥哥劝他不要越狱，说nobody能够从狐狸河逃出去。米帅淡定地答道：“I am nobody.”米帅说这话时的镇定和自信,很打动我,一段时期以来我把它当成我的座右铭,激励自己做别人做不到的事情. 然而,最近看了《The dairy of nobody》,...
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0 有用 秋虫 2018-04-24 19:18:51
看来不论时代和国家，小老百姓的生活都是相似的: 老实巴交，和商贩斗智斗勇时总处于下风。有点小虚荣，向往上层阶级，却总是在社交中频频遭遇失败。真心想要和孩子搞好关系，却总是忍不住干涉太多而惹他厌。。。看的时候一边笑一边心酸因为看到了自己的影子。。。
0 有用 玩偶山庄 2021-12-10 09:24:42
和中文版穿插着断断续续看了很久，一来自己英文太差，二来很好奇那些巧妙的语言梗是怎么翻译的，遗憾的是有不少没能翻译过来。每次只看几页，但很享受，既因为幽默的语言，也因为那种平凡的日常，有相濡以沫的妻子，“叛逆”但很有想法的儿子，三两好友，简直是理想的生活。
0 有用 缪缪MMutee 2015-05-06 11:17:56
日记不就是记录琐碎生活的啊，没有大起大落，读起来很舒服。全程几乎没生词啊～
0 有用 冰野 2012-06-18 23:51:35
普通的生活也可以如此有趣
0 有用 树叶的叶 2019-08-26 21:44:14
R4 read by Authur Lowe.
0 有用 玩偶山庄 2021-12-10 09:24:42
和中文版穿插着断断续续看了很久，一来自己英文太差，二来很好奇那些巧妙的语言梗是怎么翻译的，遗憾的是有不少没能翻译过来。每次只看几页，但很享受，既因为幽默的语言，也因为那种平凡的日常，有相濡以沫的妻子，“叛逆”但很有想法的儿子，三两好友，简直是理想的生活。
0 有用 LitLia 2020-12-01 19:04:35
上周读完的一本小书。 unexpectedly readable。 我对同学说，这种diary我也能写的哇。
0 有用 水门 2019-09-27 15:45:50
文字还是不错的
0 有用 树叶的叶 2019-08-26 21:44:14
R4 read by Authur Lowe.
0 有用 TR33 2019-05-08 23:15:55
加上语气反而失色，神秘