The Diary of a Nobody: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Diary of a Nobody, credited to George and Weedon Grossmith, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of The Diary of a Nobody by George & Weedon Grossmith. Read by Martin Clifton The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first "blog"; being a record of the simplicities and humiliations in the life of this mundane, but upright, city clerk, who had an incontestable faith that a record of his daily life was worth preserving for posterity. Set in about 1891 in Holloway, which was then a typical suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind, the authors contrive a record of the manners, customs and experiences of the late Victorian era. The bare record of facts, simply recorded, manages to be humorous rather than dull, no doubt because of the usual occupations of the authors. George Grossmith (1847-1912) was an actor and comedian. Weedon Grossmith (1852-1919) was an entertainer and illustrated the original work. (Summary by Martin Clifton)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Diary of a Nobody
• Author credits: George and Weedon Grossmith
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Combined MP3 track duration: 4:22:08

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch00 — 0:51
2. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch01 — 7:22
3. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch02 — 13:05
4. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch03 — 12:48
5. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch04 — 11:52
6. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch05 — 16:27
7. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch06 — 10:24
8. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch07 — 11:14
9. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch08 — 11:50
10. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch09 — 7:27
11. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch10 — 7:07
12. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch11 — 15:16
13. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch12 — 8:10
14. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch13 — 12:50
15. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch14 — 15:17
16. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch15 — 8:08
17. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch16 — 6:49
18. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch17 — 5:34
19. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch18 — 15:59
20. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch19 — 9:03
21. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch20 — 10:33
22. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch21 — 11:35
23. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch22 — 18:38
24. The Diary of a Nobody_Ch23 — 11:08

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