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Summary. Penrod, who would rather hide in the haystall writing bloody adventure stories, is obligated to appear in a children’s pageant as the Child Sir Lancelot. To further his humiliation, his ...
Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
- Booth Tarkington, Grant Gordon
- 1914
Penrod ceratinly dressed more formally than the modern boy. What ever the activity, even playong around the house he seems to always wear a norfolk, belted suit. Eton collars. Penrod occasionally is seen in an Eton collar, but only for very formal events. Knickers. Penrod always wears knickers. Interestingly the knickers depicted often differ.
Stripped to his underwear, he had been made to wash himself vehemently; then they began by shrouding his legs in a pair of silk stockings, once blue but now mostly whitish. Upon Penrod they visibly surpassed mere ampleness; but they were long, and it required only a rather loose imagination to assume that they were tights.
CHAPTER I A BOY AND HIS DOG Penrod sat morosely upon the back fence and gazed with envy at Duke, his wistful dog. A bitter soul dominated the various curved and angular surfaces known by a careless world as the face of Penrod Schofield. Except in solitude, that face was almost always cryptic and emotionless; for Penrod had come
Tarkington's portraits of boys are authentic, at least within the limits his variety of realism required. Tarkington's young girls tend to be rather prim and pretty — stock characters. Marjory Jones often tells Penrod that he is the worst boy in town. But she also regards him as her own personal Caliban.
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Accessed 14 October 2024. Penrod, comic novel by Booth Tarkington, published in 1914. Its protagonist, Penrod Schofield, a 12-year-old boy who lives in a small Midwestern city, rebels against his parents and teachers and experiences the baffling ups and downs of preadolescence. Tarkington expertly conveys the speech and.
