Penrod

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Penrod
Cover 1st edition of Penrod.jpg
First edition
Author Booth Tarkington
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Doubleday, Page
Publication date
1914
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (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.

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Adaptations

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]

References

  1. Robert Cortes Holliday, "Booth Tarkington", BiblioLife (June 4, 2009)
  2. Frederic I. Carpenter, "The Adolescent in American Fiction", The English Journal, Vol. 46, No. 6 (Sep. 1957), pp. 313–319
  3. "Audience liked 'Penrod'". Variety . L (13): 14. May 24, 1918. Retrieved March 21, 2015 via Internet Archive.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Drew, Bernard A. (2013). Motion Picture Series and Sequels: A Reference Guide. Taylor & Francis. p. 252. ISBN   978-1-317-92893-5.
  5. "Penrod and Sam". Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
  6. "Three Shorts a Week Vitaphone Studio Plan". The Film Daily . LVI (58): 24. September 6, 1931. Retrieved March 21, 2015 via Internet Archive.
  7. "NBC_University_Theater".
  8. Penrod (Revised Edition): Illustrated by Gordon Grant. BookBaby. November 7, 2017.
  9. Penrod (Revised ed.).