9781528718691 - Penrod and Sam - Booth Tarkington
9781528718691 - Penrod and Sam - Booth Tarkington
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Penrod and Sam

The second installment to “The Penrod Series”. Following on the relationship between Penrod Schofield and his best friend, Sam Williams, this is a charming tale of youth reminiscent of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” that will not disappoint fans of Tarkington’s wonderful work.

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Author

Booth Tarkington

Imprint

Read & Co. Classics

Series

The Penrod Series

Categories

Action & Adventure Fiction

Coming of Age

Short Stories & Anthologies

Fiction

ISBN

9781528718691, 9781528791786

Formats Available

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Pages

222

Publication Date

07 December 2020

Dimensions 5.5 × 8.5 in

Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946) was an American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana’s Golden Age of literature. First published in 1916, Tarkington’s novel “Penrod and Sam” is the second installment to “The Penrod Series” and concentrates on the relationship between Penrod Schofield and his best friend, Sam Williams. A charming tale of youth reminiscent of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” that will not disappoint fans of Tarkington’s wonderful work. Other notable works by this author include: “Monsieur Beaucaire” (1900), “The Turmoil” (1915), and “The Magnificent Ambersons” (1918). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this novel now in a new edition complete with a biography of the author from “Encyclopædia Britannica” (1922).

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