So we may take it that Penrod Schofield is eleven years old in 1913. the compilation has been made and is here displayed as the author's final word upon "a boy's doings in the days when the stable was empty but not yet rebuilt into a garage." This book owes its existence to a lady connected by marriage with the writer, for at the time of her consent to become thus related she made virtually the condition that he should write something about a boy. He understood that the government was against him, nor was his judgment at fault in this conclusion.īooth Tarkington provides an engaging introduction to Penrod: His Complete Story, written in the 'Teens of the Twentieth Century: He remained where he was, brooding morbidly. Penrod heard his name again mentioned between them as they went, and, though he did not catch the accompanying remark, he was inclined to think it unfavourable. "If you'd come to the dancing class some Friday with Amy and me, you'd understand why." "I don't think the little girls will mind that so much!" Miss Lowe said. Penrod: His Complete Story - Booth TarkingtonĤ color pages 12 b&w pages 69 b&w chapter headings.
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