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George Grossmith

Born

in Islington, London, The United Kingdom

December 09, 1847

Died

March 01, 1912

Genre

Humor

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George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades. As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines. Grossmith is best remembered for two aspects of his career. First, he created a series of nine memorable characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 to 1889, including Sir Joseph Porter, in H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), the Major-General in The Pirates of Penzance (1880) and Ko-Ko in The Mikado (1885–87). Second, he wrote, in collaboration with his brother Weedon, the 1892 comic novel Diary of a Nobody.

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Average rating: 3.69 · 18,773 ratings · 1,812 reviews · 89 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Diary of a Nobody 3.68 avg rating — 18,662 ratings — published 1892 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Society Clown 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1888 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diary of a Nobody / A Society Clown 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Make You Laugh: The Diary of a Nobody & Three Men in a Boat by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, Jerome K. Jerome really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Handbook of Ball-Room Dancing 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Muddle-Puddle Porter. [Comic song] ... Written & composed by G. Grossmith. it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Society Clown: Reminiscences it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncle Samuel. An operetta in one act. Written by Arthur Law. 1881 [Leather Bound] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Garden Theatre (London) Program for Sally 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I never was so immensely tickled by anything I had ever said before. I actually woke up twice during the night, and laughed till the bed shook.”
― George Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody

tags: charles-pooter, humor, joke, sleep, wakefulness, waking

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“What's the good of a home, if you are never in it?”
― George Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody

tags: charles-pooter, home, house

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“Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.”
― George Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody

tags: charles-pooter, comedy, humor, sense-of-humor

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March 2023 Old School Classics Poll

Electra by Sophocles, -410, 128 pp

58 votes, 22.2%

The Aeneid by Virgil, -19, 484 pp

49 votes, 18.8%

The Symposium by Plato, -380, 90 pp

38 votes, 14.6%

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith, 1889, 176 pp

37 votes, 14.2%

The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac, 1831, 252 pp

35 votes, 13.4%

Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana Jr., 1840, 458 pp

31 votes, 11.9%

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, 1899, 288 pp

13 votes, 5.0%

261 total votes

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