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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 1929, Tarkington's novel "Penrod Jashber" is the third installment to "The Penrod Series". Following on from his earlier novels "Penrod" (1914) and "Penrod and Sam" (1916), show more "Penrod Jashber" continues the story of the eponymous 11-year-old boy living in a small city in the Midwest who has now developed a penchant for solving mysteries. 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). show lessTags
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I found this book to be pretty boring and dry. For a kids book it lacked adventure. The only redeeming qualities is that it has some examples of bad behavior and a showing of guilt as results of miss behaving.
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Newton Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on July 29, 1869. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, than spent his first two years of college at Purdue University and his last two at Princeton University. When his class graduated in 1893, he lacked sufficient credits for a degree. Upon leaving Princeton, he returned to Indiana show more determined to pursue a career as a writer. Tarkington was an early member of The Dramatic Club, founded in 1889, and often wrote plays and directed and acted in its productions. After a five-year apprenticeship full of publishers' rejection slips, Tarkington enjoyed a huge commercial success with The Gentleman from Indiana, which was published in 1899. He produced a total of 171 short stories, 21 novels, 9 novellas, and 19 plays along with a number of movie scripts, radio dramas, and even illustrations over the course of a career that lasted from 1899 until his death in 1946. His novels included Monsieur Beaucaire, The Flirt, Seventeen, Gentle Julia, and The Turmoil. He won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1919 and 1922 for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He used the political knowledge he acquired while serving one term in the Indiana House of Representatives in the short story collection In the Arena. In collaboration with dramatist Harry Leon Wilson, Tarkington wrote The Man from Home, the first of many successful Broadway plays. He wrote children's stories in the final phase of his career. He died on May 19, 1946 after an illness. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1915
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- Penrod Schofield; Sam Williams
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- "We got a big case goin' on up here now, Bill."
- Dedication
- To Dr. William H. Wilmer - In the hope thar some day he may find what for him seems rarest, an idle hour, and that perhaps then his humor may be indulgent enough to gather some amusement from an account of a boy's doings in ... (show all)the days when the stable was empty but not yet rebuilt into a garage, this book, compiled in great part at the Wilmer Institute, is most greatfully and affectionately dedicated.
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- On a Friday in April, Penrod Schofield, having returned from school at noon promptly, on account of an earnest appetite, found lunch considerably delayed and himself (after a bit of simple technique) alone in the pantry with ... (show all)a large, open, metal receptacle containing about two-thirds of a peck of perfect doughnuts just come into the world.
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