A collection of comic sketches that follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, where against his will, Penrod is cast as "The Child Sir Lancelot" in the ...
He was an ordinary twelve-year-old boy growing up in early twentieth-century America: mischievous, adventurous, and irreverent. In the Penrod stories, Tarkington created realistic boys' stories not unlike that adventures of Tom Sawyer.
How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About Penrod by Booth Tarkington Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914.
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Booth Tarkington. personal qualities. “Totally lacking in guile and pretense,” Woodress writes, “he was a man of integrity, a generous humanist, an inveterate optimist, and an old-fashioned gentleman.” He was modest, amiable, ...
A timeless novel in the spirited tradition of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" One of the most popular American authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Read & Co. Classics are proudly republishing this novel now in a new edition complete with a biography of the author from “Encyclopædia Britannica” (1922).
A timeless novel in the spirited tradition of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" One of the most popular American authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
A timeless novel in the spirited tradition of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" One of the most popular American authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Penrod turned upon her a stern glance. “Say, wouldn't you be just as happy if you had SOME sense?” “Penrod!” shouted his father. But Penrod's mother gazed with dismay at her son: he had never before spoken like that to his sister.
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In Penrod, Tarkington established characters who appeared in two further books, Penrod and Sam (1916) and Penrod Jashber (1929). The three books were published together in one volume, Penrod: His Complete Story, in 1931.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington, creator of the beloved novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, also created the lovable character of Penrod Schofield, who is at the center of several collections of tales, short ...
A timeless novel in the spirited tradition of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" One of the most popular American authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...