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Penrod and Sam

by Booth Tarkington
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Overview

Penrod Schofield, age eleven, and best friend Samuel Williams careen through a series of misadventures in this 1929 look back at boyhood before the Great War. Fishing a cat out of a well using a pair of trousers is just one of the outrages they perpetrate in this sequel to Penrod.

About the Author, Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist best known for his depictions of life in small Midwestern cities. A lover of the theater, he dramatized several of his own books. Today, he is most noted as the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons and for the novel Alice Adams, about the frustrated ambitions of a lower middle class young woman.

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Book Details

Published
March 1, 2011
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
ISBN
9781411438088

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