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    Penrod and Sam
    Penrod Jashber
    Penrod
    Ebook series3 titles

    Penrod series

    By Booth Tarkington

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    About this series

    Penrod Schofield ia an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the Midwestern United States. Penrod and his friends decide to start their own detective agency with hilarious results!
    A children’s book involving a boy detective who “solves” various mysteries and more than often gets himself into trouble as a result.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClassica Libris
    Release dateApr 17, 2020
    Penrod and Sam
    Penrod Jashber
    Penrod

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      Penrod
      Penrod

      Penrod

      Booth Tarkington
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      Penrod is a comic work that chronicles the misadventures of an eleven-year-old boy, Penrod Schofield, who is considered “The Worst Boy in Town.” Tarkington’s young protagonist causes all sorts of mischief as he comes up with schemes like setting up a “drugstore” with his friend Sam, which involves creating a potion for smallpox from mouth wash, syrup and “extinct hair oil” alongside other expired medications. Penrod and Sam then persuade another unsuspecting young boy to drink the concoction, which does not quite have the results they anticipate. The Penrod novels have been adapted for film and stage multiple times including a 1918 play by Edward E. Rose, the 1922 silent film adaptation and the 1951 musical On Moonlight Bay starring Doris Day.

      Penrod is a comic work that chronicles the misadventures of an eleven-year-old boy, Penrod Schofield, who is considered “The Worst Boy in Town.” Tarkington’s young protagonist causes all sorts of mischief as he comes up with schemes like setting up a “drugstore” with his friend Sam, which involves creating a potion for smallpox from mouth wash, syrup and “extinct hair oil” alongside other expired medications. Penrod and Sam then persuade another unsuspecting young boy to drink the concoction, which does not quite have the results they anticipate. The Penrod novels have been adapted for film and stage multiple times including a 1918 play by Edward E. Rose, the 1922 silent film adaptation and the 1951 musical On Moonlight Bay starring Doris Day.

    • 2

      Penrod and Sam
      Penrod and Sam

      Penrod and Sam

      Booth Tarkington
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      The continued adventures of the imaginative Penrod Schofield In Penrod and Sam, the imaginative adventures of Tarkington’s 10-year-old Penrod Schofield continue. Penrod’s sidekick is Samuel Williams, and together they improvise, causing general mischief and disorder wherever they go. In picaresque fashion, a fencing battle takes them all through the neighborhood; they narrowly escape serious injury while making boastful demonstrations with a loaded gun; they indulge in dubious “’nishiation” practices for their secret society; they steal food for the starving horse concealed in the Schofields’ empty stable; they attempt to fish a cat out of a cistern using a pair of trousers; and they cause general chaos at Miss Amy Rennsdale’s dance. Familiar characters from the earlier Penrod volume—Maurice Levy, Georgie Basset, Roddy Bitts, Herman and Verman, and Marjorie Jones—make their appearance in Penrod and Sam. This is a delightfully nostalgic look at Tarkington’s turn-of-the-century Indiana.

      The continued adventures of the imaginative Penrod Schofield In Penrod and Sam, the imaginative adventures of Tarkington’s 10-year-old Penrod Schofield continue. Penrod’s sidekick is Samuel Williams, and together they improvise, causing general mischief and disorder wherever they go. In picaresque fashion, a fencing battle takes them all through the neighborhood; they narrowly escape serious injury while making boastful demonstrations with a loaded gun; they indulge in dubious “’nishiation” practices for their secret society; they steal food for the starving horse concealed in the Schofields’ empty stable; they attempt to fish a cat out of a cistern using a pair of trousers; and they cause general chaos at Miss Amy Rennsdale’s dance. Familiar characters from the earlier Penrod volume—Maurice Levy, Georgie Basset, Roddy Bitts, Herman and Verman, and Marjorie Jones—make their appearance in Penrod and Sam. This is a delightfully nostalgic look at Tarkington’s turn-of-the-century Indiana.

    • 3

      Penrod Jashber
      Penrod Jashber

      Penrod Jashber

      Booth Tarkington
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      Penrod Schofield ia an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the Midwestern United States. Penrod and his friends decide to start their own detective agency with hilarious results! A children’s book involving a boy detective who “solves” various mysteries and more than often gets himself into trouble as a result.

      Penrod Schofield ia an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the Midwestern United States. Penrod and his friends decide to start their own detective agency with hilarious results! A children’s book involving a boy detective who “solves” various mysteries and more than often gets himself into trouble as a result.

    Author

    Booth Tarkington

    Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist, known for most of his career as “The Midwesterner.” Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Tarkington was a personable and charming student who studied at both Purdue and Princeton University. Earning no degrees, the young author cemented his memory and place in the society of higher education on his popularity alone—being familiar with several clubs, the college theater and voted “most popular” in the class of 1893. His writing career began just six years later with his debut novel, The Gentleman from Indiana and from there, Tarkington would enjoy two decades of critical and commercial acclaim. Coming to be known for his romanticized and picturesque depiction of the Midwest, he would become one of only four authors to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once for The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921), at one point being considered America’s greatest living author, comparable only to Mark Twain. While in the later half of the twentieth century Tarkington’s work fell into obscurity, it is undeniable that at the height of his career, Tarkington’s literary work and reputation were untouchable.

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