Comic diary
1892
The Diary of a Nobody
George and Weedon Grossmith
4 h 40 min
Charles Pooter records every small triumph and humiliation of a City clerk's life, from a red-enamelled bath to a son renamed Lupin.
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Comic diary
1892
George and Weedon Grossmith
4 h 40 min
Charles Pooter records every small triumph and humiliation of a City clerk's life, from a red-enamelled bath to a son renamed Lupin.
Comic novella
1924
William John Locke
1 h 2 min
A leader of the Chancery Bar wakes barefoot in a gipsy caravan on a French road, with no memory of the last three days.
Country-house farce
1928
Hilaire Belloc
6 h 47 min
To win back his father's house from a speculator with a bought ancestor, John Maple decides that Rackham can be haunted.
Comic novel
1889
Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne
6 h 21 min
A tontine worth a hundred thousand pounds, a corpse that is the wrong uncle, and a body travelling as freight across England.
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