Author: Booth Tarkington
Narrator: Steven Green
Unabridged: 5 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Smith Show Media Group
Published: 02/20/2012
Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. He himself came from a patrician family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873.
This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. The only way to do it justice is by quoting it: After Penrod (the 11 year old hero of the story) blurts out something he might have kept to himself: Nothing is more treacherous than the human mind; nothing else so loves to play the Iscariot. Even whe......more
Excruciatingly tedious adventures of an annoying brat.......more
The credit for the “Our Gang” (a.k.a. “Little Rascals” isn’t given to Booth Tarkington’s “Penrod”, but one has to wonder if it should be. The movies started in 1922, while “Penrod” was published just 8 years earlier in 1914. There is a collection of characters in “Penrod” which is somewhat similar a......more
penrod is an amusing book. it's not laugh-out-loud funny but the misadventures of this inscrutable and bad boy are captivating, and knowing, and made me smile. tarkington lets us into the hallowed halls of an adolescent male mind which is itching for experiences, and wily in its meeting of any conse......more
I loved this one so much! It is incredibly funny (Penrod is quite a character!) -- such a good children's book! And though I think children would think it is funny, I can't imagine that they could appreciate Booth Tarkington's amazing writing. He was a magician with words! I had to pay full attentio......more