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The Peterkin Papers

by Lucretia P. Hale

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1880
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  1. Preface / The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee

    13:54

  2. About Elizabeth Eliza's Piano/The Peterkins Try to Become Wise/Mrs. Peterkin Wishes To Go To Drive

    12:41

  3. The Peterkins at Home/Why the Peterkins Had a Late Dinner

    9:04

  4. The Peterkin's Summer Journey/The Peterkins Snowed Up

    17:23

  5. The Peterkins Decide to Keep a Cow / The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree

    19:27

  6. The Peterkins' Tea Party / The Peterkins Too Late For the Exhibition

    21:52

  7. The Peterkins Celebrate the "Fourth" / The Peterkins' Picnic

    31:04

  8. The Peterkins' Charades / The Peterkins are Obliged to Move

    28:02

  9. The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages / Modern Improvements at the Peterkins

    30:20

  10. Agamemnon's Career / The Educational Breakfast

    38:35

  11. The Peterkins at the "Carnival of Authors" in Boston

    23:54

  12. The Peterkins at the Farm

    17:51

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Meet the Peterkins, a well-meaning New England family whose gift for overcomplicating the simplest problem drives this collection of comic short stories. When Mrs. Peterkin accidentally pours salt in her coffee, the whole household consults a chemist and an herb-woman before anyone thinks of just brewing a fresh cup. Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin, along with children Agamemnon, Solomon John, Elizabeth Eliza and the three little boys, blunder through everyday tasks with earnest, logical-sounding nonsense, and it usually takes the sensible visiting Lady from Philadelphia to point out the obvious. Hale first ran these tales in the children's magazine Our Young Folks before gathering them into a book in 1880. The gentle satire of over-education and family fussiness has kept the stories fondly read for generations.

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Lucretia P. Hale

Lucretia Peabody Hale (1820-1900) was an American writer born into a prominent Boston literary family; she was a sister of the author and clergyman Edward Everett Hale. She wrote essays, instructional books and fiction, but is remembered above all for her humorous Peterkin stories, which began appearing in periodicals in the late 1860s.

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First published
1880
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
166
Language
English
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