Publisher's Synopsis

'The funniest book in the world' Evelyn Waugh

Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable home in Holloway with his dear wife Carrie, from where he commutes to his job of valued clerk at a reputable bank in the City. Unfortunately neither his dear friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, nor the butcher, the greengrocer's boy and the Lord Mayor seem to recognise Mr Pooter's innate gentility, and his disappointing son Lupin has gone and got himself involved with a most unsuitable fiancee...

George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel, perfectly illustrated by Weedon, is a glorious, affectionate caricature of the English middle-class at the end of nineteenth century.

Book information

ISBN: 9780099540885
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.8
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 171
Weight: 134g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 12mm