Penrod by Booth Tarkington, Fiction, Political, Literary, Classics
Penrod Schofield is an eleven-year-old boy living in middle America. He's been roped into the school play as the young Sir Lancelot, a role that he does not want to play. Instead of slogging through it, he and his friends make mischief and thus are dubbed the bad boys. They lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want. When Penrod's sister's dress is found muddied in the doghouse, he naturally is blamed for it. Penrod comes into situations that are too complicated for his young mind to understand, and yet, he manages to somehow make sense of it all. He learns, despite himself, what it means to be human.Booth Tarkington's novels The Two Vanreve…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60312-208-5
- EAN: 9781603122085
- Produktnummer: 24941800
- Verlag: Aegypan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 242 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 242
Über den Autor
Jeremy Beer, a native of Indiana, is president of the American Ideas Institute. He is the author of The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity, and coeditor of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia. He co-founded the influential localist web journal Front Porch Republic in 2009. He and his wife, Kara, live in Phoenix, Arizona.
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