Peterkin Papers, The (version 2)

By Hale, Lucretia P.

Book Id: WPLBN0002952493
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File Size: 129.11 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Peterkin Papers, The (version 2)
Author:	Hale, Lucretia P.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Peterkin Papers, The (version 2)
Historic Publication Date:	1900
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago P. Hal, B. L. (1900). Peterkin Papers, The (version 2). Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are a lovable but comically inept family with ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy—but not common sense. Many chapters show the family trying to solve some problem in a roundabout way, failing, and eventually being rescued by the wise old lady from Philadelphia, who cuts the Gordian knot with an effective but prosaic solution. The charm of the story is not in the plot, but in the telling, building up layers of complication, and the affectionate fun poked at the not-quite-cartoonish characters. The wise old lady's solution is usually obvious to the reader, even the young listener, from the start. (summary from Wikipedia)

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