喬治・格羅史密斯(George Grossmith, 1847-1912),幽默小品(短劇)和歌麯的創作者、錶演者與演唱者,當時有名的多伊利・卡特劇團的颱柱,是傑齣的喜劇天纔,著有自傳《大眾小醜》。
威登・格羅史密斯(Weedon Grossmith,1854-1919),喬治的弟弟,劇作傢、畫傢和大眾喜劇演員;他不僅與哥哥喬治共同寫作瞭“日記”,還為《小人物日記》畫瞭插圖。
Book Description
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.
From AudioFile
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.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
《小人物日记》 不管媒体怎么好评该书,我 ,大概是粗人的缘故,始终无法理解钱老先生赞誉的幽默在那里。五六行就冒出来的一句不知所云的俏皮话,每次都要掉下去看页脚的英文原文,着实是很累。当然三联爱用的给爱书人的白色封皮和里面的钢笔插画,还是深得我心,形式主义又开...
評分大人物的传记很多,而我这里要说的这一本实在是太不简单了:它从1891年面世以来就一直在卖,事隔一百一十几年还在卖,据说新书还卖二十美元一本——是谁这么有吸引力能抵抗住时间抵抗住风潮甚至抵抗住中西文化差异?女士们先生们,我很荣幸为你们介绍这本传记的主人公:伟...
評分如果我一直不给“小人物日记”打分,它就坚持死样怪气荡在我的“豆瓣猜你会喜欢的书目”里。而且始终站在头一栏,搞得像重点推荐似的。虽然不清楚豆瓣的推荐规则,仍觉得它有点对头——我不去理这本书,它却找上门来,似乎晓得私人关系决定了自己的重要性。关于此书,我写...
評分查尔斯.普特尔,一个刻板老套、乏味虚荣、容易满足的主人公。在日复一日地生活着,他的生活目标,就是成为一个体面的绅士。通篇的家长里短、柴米油盐,字斟句酌地构思几句自以为幽默的话语,再以貌似漫不经心的方式说出去,然后内心颇为自得与窃喜。喜怒哀乐之所系,全是些于别...
評分这篇评论是好几年前写的了,哎,当时还是个有心境读书的大学生啊。 这本书出自《外研社双语读库》这套丛书,一套里每本书基本上都堪称经典,至于翻译,至少在这本书里,我觉得翻得相当不错。(只看过这一本,别的也不好评论)在此本人感谢外研社专家倾尽全力的翻译,亦感谢论...
說是錢锺書推薦纔看的,英文磕磣能讀通但沒懂幽默感
评分日記不就是記錄瑣碎生活的啊,沒有大起大落,讀起來很舒服。全程幾乎沒生詞啊~
评分加上語氣反而失色,神秘
评分關上傢門的事,home sweet home~ Witty British
评分日記不就是記錄瑣碎生活的啊,沒有大起大落,讀起來很舒服。全程幾乎沒生詞啊~
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