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Country
  
United States

Media type
  
Print (hardcover)

Originally published
  
1914

Original language
  
English

Adaptations
  
On Moonlight Bay (1951)

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Publication date
  
1914

Followed by
  
Penrod and Sam

Author
  
Booth Tarkington

Publisher
  
Doubleday

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Genres
  
Fiction, Children's literature

Similar
  
Works by Booth Tarkington, Classical Studies books, Fiction books

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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. 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.

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Adaptations

Penrod, its sequels, and characters occurring therein were adapted in numerous stage and film versions.

  • Penrod (1918), play adapted by Edward E. Rose and first staged at the Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City.
  • Penrod (1922), silent film, with Wesley Barry as Penrod.
  • Penrod and Sam (1923), silent film, based on the first sequel to Penrod, with Ben Alexander as Penrod.
  • Penrod and Sam (1931), with Leon Janney as Penrod.
  • A series of 9-10 minute comedy shorts from Vitaphone and Warner Brothers featuring Tarkington's characters with Billy Hayes as Penrod and often directed by Alfred J. Goulding,
  • Snakes Alive (September 26, 1931)
  • Batter Up! (October 24, 1931)
  • One Good Deed (December 5, 1931)
  • Detectuvs (January 2, 1932)
  • His Honor, Penrod (January 23, 1932)
  • Hot Dog (February 20, 1932)
  • Penrod's Bull Pen (March 19, 1932).
  • Penrod and Sam (1937), with Billy Mauch as Penrod, the first of three Penrod films starring the Mauch twins.
  • Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938), with Billy and Bobby Mauch as the leads.
  • Penrod's Double Trouble (1938), with Billy and Bobby Mauch as the leads.
  • On Moonlight Bay (1951), a musical with Billy Gray as Wesley Winfield (Penrod), Doris Day as his sister Marjorie (the lead), and Gordon MacRae as her love interest.
  • By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953), the musical sequel to On Moonlight Bay, with the same cast.

    • References

    Penrod Wikipedia
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