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Penrod

First published: 1914
Pages: 190

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01 - A Boy and His Dog
10:02
02 - Romance
11:30
03 - The Costume
8:36
04 - Desperation
9:31
05 - The Pageant of the Table Round
10:55
06 - Evening - Evils of Drink
11:41
07 - School
6:55
08 - Soaring
7:26
09 - Uncle John
13:55
10 - Fidelity of a Little Dog
10:09
11 - Miss Rennsdale Accepts
15:29
12 - The Smallpox Medicine
10:54
13 - Maurice Levy's Constitution
14:27
14 - The Two Families
17:46
15 - The New Star
18:50
16 - Retiring from the Show-Business
11:04
17 - Music
14:48
18 - The Inner Boy
11:18
19 - Brothers of Angels
8:44
20 - Rupe Collins
11:56
21 - The Imitator
17:18
22 - Coloured Troops in Action
8:45
23 - Little Gentleman
13:31
24 - Tar
22:55
25 - The Quiet Afternoon
16:35
26 - Conclusion of the Quiet Afternoon
10:06
27 - Twelve
10:23
28 - Fanchon
7:42
29 - The Birthday Party
15:34
30 - Over the Fence
5:07

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About this book

Booth Tarkington follows eleven-year-old Penrod Schofield through a run of small disasters in a Midwestern town on the eve of the First World War. Forced into an itchy costume as the Child Sir Lancelot, staging a backyard show with a homemade menagerie, or feuding with the neighborhood bullies, Penrod blunders from one scrape to the next with his dog Duke and friends Sam, Herman, and Verman at his side. There is no grand plot, only the honest comedy of boyhood observed with affection and a sharp ear. The sketches made Penrod a household name and a favorite comic portrait of American childhood. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

About the author

Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington was an Indianapolis novelist, dramatist, and chronicler of social change in the American Midwest. The Gentleman from Indiana, his 1899 debut, follows a newspaper editor in a fictional Indiana town, while Penrod collects the misadventures of a Midwestern boy.