Adrian Mole faces the same agonies which life sets before most adolescents: trouble with girls, school, parents, and an uncaring world. The difference, tough, between young Master Mole and his peers is that this British lad keeps a diary-an earnest chronicle of longing and disaster that has convulsed more than five million readers since its two-volume initial publication. From teenaged Adrian's obsession with intellectuality after understanding "nearly every word" of a Malcolm Muggeridge broadcast to his anguished adoration of a lovely, mercurial schoolmate, from his view of his parents' constantly creaking relationship to his heartfelt but hilarious attempts at cathartic verse, here is an outrageous triumph of deadpan, and deadly accurate, satire.