Complete and unabridged, with 15 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, Marianne North and William James Müller. Charles Pooter, a City clerk of no importance whatever, keeps a diary: the tradesmen are insolent, his son is a disappointment, his jokes are unappreciated, and he has just painted the bath red. The Grossmith brothers wrote it for Punch in 1888 — George was the star comedian of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas — and invented the suburban Everyman that English comedy has been rewriting ever since. Fifteen plates by painters including William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais, from cottage interiors to landscapes, mirror the modest domestic world Pooter records.