User:Sofia Roberts/Penrod and Sam (novel)
| Author | Booth Tarkington |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Grosset & Dunlap |
Publication date | 1916 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Preceded by | The Turmoil |
| Followed by | Seventeen (novel) |
Penrod and Sam is the second in a series of collections of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington about the adventures of Penrod Schofield, an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States. The other two books in the series are Penrod (1914) and Penrod Jashber (1929). The three books were published together in one volume, Penrod: His Complete Story, in 1931.
Plot summary[edit]
Penrod and his friends form a secret society and discover the dangers of a loaded gun. Penrod adopts an abandoned horse and tries to conceal him from his parents, plays jungle hunter with a feral cat, plays a prank on the cook, and disrupts a children's party.
On screen[edit]
- Penrod and Sam (1923) silent, with Ben Alexander as Penrod.
- Penrod and Sam (1931), with Leon Janney as Penrod.
- Penrod and Sam (1937), with Billy Mauch as Penrod.
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