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Penrod
Résumé
Penrod is a collection of comic sketches published in 1914 that follows Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy, through a chain of misadventures in pre-World War I Midwestern America. Over the course of these episodes, Penrod handles everything from the embarrassment and confusion of participating in a pageant as “The Child Sir Lancelot” to attempting to organize backyard entertainments. He also finds himself drawn into run-ins with local tough kids and tests the limits of boyhood pride, including mishaps connected to birthday parties and hero-worship that do not go as expected. Through Penrod’s antics, the book humorously highlights the clash between adult expectations and the unpredictable imagination of childhood.
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