Penrod and Sam - Tarkington, Booth
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In Penrod and Sam, the imaginative adventures of Tarkington's 10-year-oldPenrod Schofield continue. Penrod's sidekick is Samuel Williams, and together theyimprovise, causing general mischief and disorder wherever they go. In picaresquefashion, a fencing battle takes them all through the neighborhood; they narrowlyescape serious injury while making boastful demonstrations with a loaded gun; theyindulge in dubious "'nishiation" practices for their secret society; theysteal food for the starving horse concealed in the Schofields' empty stable; theyattempt to fish a cat out of a cistern using a…mehr

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In Penrod and Sam, the imaginative adventures of Tarkington's 10-year-oldPenrod Schofield continue. Penrod's sidekick is Samuel Williams, and together theyimprovise, causing general mischief and disorder wherever they go. In picaresquefashion, a fencing battle takes them all through the neighborhood; they narrowlyescape serious injury while making boastful demonstrations with a loaded gun; theyindulge in dubious "'nishiation" practices for their secret society; theysteal food for the starving horse concealed in the Schofields' empty stable; theyattempt to fish a cat out of a cistern using a pair of trousers; and they causegeneral chaos at Miss Amy Rennsdale's dance. Familiar characters from the earlierPenrod volume -- Maurice Levy, Georgie Basset, Roddy Bitts, Herman and Verman, andMarjorie Jones -- make their appearance in Penrod and Sam. This is a delightfullynostalgic look at Tarkington's turn-of-the-century Indiana.
Autorenporträt
Newton Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, which also became a film by Orson Welles. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. Tarkington chronicled Midwestern American life and the changes wrought by the economic boom times following the Civil War and up to World War I.