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Summary: A Classic Realistic Tale
Review: "Penrod" is a great novel -- interesting, enlightening, profound, grandiloquent and one of the most hilarious books ever written.Aspects of the subject matter, however, while generally accepted in the early 1900s and treated kindly herein by the author, would simply not fly under today's political-correctness coercion. As far as popular literature is concerned, it is effectively a banned book. Consequently, "Penrod" eventually will fade from general literary consciousness, and linger only in the memories of those who truly appreciate a fine novel.
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Summary: Being a boy!
Review: "Penrod" is the humorous story of a twelve-year-old boy, Penrod Schofield, growing up in pre-World War I mid-west. He, with his dog Duke and his friends Sam Williams and the black brothers Herman and Vernon, are constantly getting into scrapes with adults. This is a celebration of the joys of boyhood. But, one wonders what counselors and behavioral psychologists and certain physicians would do today if Penrod Schofield got into their clutches! They might even put him on medication. For just being a boy!!....."They were upon their great theme: 'When I get to be a man!' Being human, though boys, they consider their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover."
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Summary: great...
Review: How can romantic comedies about ADULTS be based on the Penrod novels?!? It just doesn't make any sense. If they really are, they must take extreme liberties with the plot. Anyway, Penrod, along with the sequels Penrod and Sam and the tragically out-of-print Penrod Jashber is a wonderful novel, which captures childhood better than anything else out there, along with, perhaps, Herman Wouk's The City Boy. Read it.
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Summary: a boy's life
Review: I first read this book some time in the 1920s. Rereading it is a delight in contrast to some of the junk foisted off on us by modern corporate publishers as "literature." Alas, Babylon!
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Summary: Read this 30 years later and laughed my head off!
Review: I read this book as a kid and enjoyed this. I read this again, approximately 30 years later and just about laughed my head off!
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Summary: Capturing the Life of a Boy
Review: In Penrod, Booth Tarkington tells the story of 11-year-old Penrod Scofield in early 20th Century America. Some things about the book are certainly dated, such as stereotypes about and the language used to refer African Americans, but others are timeless.
Penrod tries to spend his entire life having what he thinks is harmless fun with his friends and neighbors and learning about the amazing world in which he is living. Unfortunately, everything he does gets him in trouble with the adults around him--teachers, parents, parents of neighbors. And Penrod is always bewildered about the fact that he is in trouble, bewildered by the fact that he takes a beating at punishment, and equally bewildered by the times he escapes punishment.
Of course, as a preteen, he is also bewildered by girls. He has a crush on a girl living in his neighborhood, but is completely unaware of how to get him to like her. She refers to him as the worst boy in town, and demands that he never speak to her. Interestingly she angers him even more by calling him a "little gentleman" than she does by ignoring him and calling him the worst boy in town. Of course, all this leads to Penrod falling deeper in love.
You will certainly enjoy this gentle book about the life of a charming and smart boy.
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Summary: Penrod.....
Review: Penrod Schofield is a very bad little boy. Well it is not even that he is a bad child it is just that he gets blamed for every thing that happens; for instance when his sisters dress disappears and ends up in dukes dog house and Penrod got blamed for it even though duke took it. He enjoys writing, and playing with his dog Duke who is almost always with him. Penrod thinks of himself as the class clown and tends not to be very truthful. Penrod has an unimportant role in the school production of The Round Table, but do not tell him that because he thinks if he dose not go the show will not go on with out him. Through out the book Penrod grows up a lot in my opinion for example he tell his father the truth at the end of the book which I did not think would happen. He does get in a lot of trouble whether it's eating too much candy or squealing on his sister. I did not like Penrod because it was in my opinion aimed more for boys and not as much towards girls or maybe it was just me but I was not entertained through out the whole book. There were most definitely parts I liked for example parts were Penrod is in conversation; one part I did not like was the excerpts from Penrod's book about how Mr. Wilson is killed. I liked the conversational parts because through out the book you are kind of in Penrod's head, and I did not like that. But in conversation you sort of get both views from both people not just what Penrod thinks. Don't lie because no one will believe you even if you are right, that is the moral of this story. I hope my review helped.
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Summary: A Classic Realistic Tale
Review: The Penrod series of novels is one of the most effective evocations of the experience of being a child ever written. They deal with the daily life and trials of a boy of eleven and twelve in turn of the century (1900) Indiana. The humor is found in the petty hypocrisies of the adults and the naivete of the children and how those two things intertwine. If you have ever day-dreamed in school or yearned for the favor of the prettiest girl in your class, you will appreciate these stories. NB. They are period pieces of the purest kind, so you should expect terms and attitudes to reflect the age from which they come.
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Summary: Dennis the Menace meets Tom Sawyer
Review: This turn of the century (turn of the LAST century) novel appears to be the first in a too-short series. The book is both fun and funny which don't always go together. As far as racism, sexism, elitism goes, kids are bright enough to not only figure them out, but to realize the author was making a point about them, just as Mark Twain attempted to do. I would classify this as a must-read for kids and a should-read for adults.
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