About the Book
Originally published in Punch. First published in book form in London in June 1892.
William Trevor in the Mail on Sunday called it, "The funniest book I know - the jewel at the heart of English comic literature."
The back of my Penguin edition says:
Mr. Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, impudent young clerks and wayward friends? And what is he to do about his son Lupin's distinctly unsuitale choice of bride? However hard he tries, life piles its little mishaps on his head - but he's not about to give up.
The bumbling, absurd, yet ultimately indearing Mr. Pooter is on of the great comic creations of English literature. This sharp. hilarious satire of suburban values has lost none of its sparkle a hundred years on and is the forerunner of classic TV sitcoms such as The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin and One Foot in the Grave.
I have used the HTML version with some alterations (removal of blank lines, addition of images) from the brilliant Project Gutenberg.