The Peterkin Papers

A classic of American children's literature and a masterpiece of deadpan drollery, "The Peterkin Papers" record the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families.

ISBN 1590172124   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781590172124 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 471 Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc   Published in New York Imprint The New York Review Children's Collection   Series title New York Review Children's Collection Format Hardback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 05 Nov 2006   Width (mm) 140 Library of Congress 2006017647   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY FIC   Academic level Children Pages 324   Interest age From 9 To 12

"How sorry we have felt for those who knew not Lucretia Hale and the Peterkins...a masterpiece."-"The New York Times ""Lucretia P. Hale's Peterkin family and 'the lady from Philadelphia' are standard characters in American fiction, and surely that is much to say of an author in these book-crowded days...Few writers leave behind them such a tribute to their greatness as the Peterkins are to Lucretia P. Hale, for the years pass them along to every new generation with the hint that human nature is about the same everywhere and all the time."-"Harper's Bazaar ""People young and old, solemn and gay, rich and poor, will be glad to welcome a new edition of the "Peterkin Papers." It is pleasant to meet the Peterkin family again..."-"The Chicago Tribune" "[Lucretia Hale is] among the best of American women writers." --"Harper's Bazaar"

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