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Author | Booth Tarkington |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Doubleday, Page |
Publication date | 1914 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Followed by | Penrod and Sam |
Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . [1] [2] In Penrod, Tarkington established characters who appeared in two further books, Penrod and Sam (1916) and Penrod Jashber (1929). The three books were published together in one volume, Penrod: His Complete Story, in 1931 Penrod shows up, played by James Cagney, as a young insurance salesman in the Millionaire opposite George Arliss.
Penrod, its sequels, and characters occurring therein were adapted in numerous stage and film versions.
On September 25, 1949, a one-hour adaptation by Robert Gray was broadcast on NBC University Theater , with Johnny McGovern as Penrod and Jeffrey Silver as Sam. [7]
A "Revised" edition of Penrod, "revising or omitting certain ethnic descriptions from the original Penrod manuscript that might be considered offensive or inappropriate", was published by Lasso Books ( ISBN 1548402109) in 2017 [8] and released in audio-book format in 2018. [9]