Penguin Classics Diary Of A Nobody MG_Gift_Guide He's about to disappear

He's about to disappear

like learning to sketch nature or teaching a cat to jump through a hoop

Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres

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an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse

Penguin Classics Diary Of A Nobody MG_Gift_Guide He's about to disappearChannelling a razor sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody is edited with an introduction and notes by Ed Glinert in Penguin Classics. Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to mention his devil may care