The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole
Monday June 13th
I had a good, proper look at myself in the mirror tonight. I've always wanted to look clever, but at the age of twenty years and three months I have to admit that I look like a person who has never even heard of Jung or Updike.
Adrian Mole is an adult. At least that's what it says on his passport. But living at home, clinging to his threadbare cuddly rabbit 'Pinky', working as a paper pusher for the DoE and pining for the love of his life, Pandora, has proved to him that adulthood isn't quite what he expected. Still, without the slings and arrows of modern life what else would an intellectual poet have to write about . . .
Included here are two other less well-known diarists: Sue Townsend and Margaret Hilda Roberts, a rather ambitious grocer's daughter from Grantham.
About the Adrian Mole Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4(1982)
- 2.The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole(1985)
- 3.The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole(1989)
- 4.Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years(1993)
- 5.Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years(1999)
- 6.Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction(2004)
- 7.The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001(2008)
- 8.Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years(2009)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Adrian has many desires and ambitions in life—to marry his teenage sweetheart, publish his poetry and novels, obtain financial security—but struggles in his ability to achieve them.
With painful, humorous, and compelling honesty, Adrian’s diary is filled with candid musings about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, and his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual'. His self-delusions and misguided assumptions ultimately reveal something meaningful, a combination which has made this highly regarded series a modern classic.