The Diary of a Nobody the first, "The Diary of a Somebody", is a direct reference to the Grossmith original. Reviewing this volume in "The Spectator", Benny Green points out several parallels with the original, in both character and event. Matthew's book, says Green, is amusing, but the Grossmiths' book is superior; it is "affecting as well as comical, in a way that the Matthew pastiche is not". In 1982 came the first appearance of Sue Townsend's teenage creation, Adrian Mole, whose passage into young manhood and early middle age is charted in a long series of diaries. The more middle-aged he becomes, says Morton,
Diary Adrian Mole diaries from the perspective of the then-Prime Minister John Major. Another famous example of fictional diaries as prose is Bram Stoker's "Dracula". A modern example includes the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series where each book of the series is written in a first-person view of the main character, as if the book were an actual diary. Other examples are the "Bert Diaries" and the cellphone diaries in the Japanese manga and anime television series "Future Diary". Diary A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened