 First edition | |
| 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.