美国男孩彭罗德12岁这年过得非同寻常,这是他童年恶作剧事业的高峰,在这一年里他荣获“全城最糟糕男生”的称号。因为他弄砸了《圆桌骑士》的表演,说弥天大谎,上课走神,不受女生青睐,自制天花药水给伙伴喝,唱难听的歌曲,用沥青制造儿童大战,赶走追姐姐的牧师……事故频频发生,名声逐渐扩大,冒险不断升级,幽默层层叠加。在一连串马不停蹄的事件中,作品试图对12岁这个特殊年龄段的成长以及更广泛的成长问题做出探讨。彭罗德的“烦恼”,并不是表面可见的恶作剧带来的惩罚,事实上,彭罗德是在找寻一种对自我的定位,是在世界观、人生观、价值观形成之初的懵懂和迷茫。
此书是作者的一部喜剧白描,首次出版于1914年。此书的主线是一个名叫彭罗德的十一岁男孩的不幸遭遇,他成长于一次大战前期的美国的中西部,故事的风格颇像《汤姆索亚历险记》。在此书中塔金顿勾勒的人物也出现在了后续的两本书中,如《彭罗德和山姆》(1916)和《彭罗德·嘉士伯》(1929)。此三本书出版于一卷中,书名叫做《彭罗德:完整故事》(1931)。
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.
- CHAPTER I A BOY AND HIS DOG
- CHAPTER II ROMANCE
- CHAPTER III THE COSTUME
- CHAPTER IV DESPERATION
- CHAPTER V THE PAGEANT OF THE TABLE ROUND
- CHAPTER VI EVENING
- CHAPTER VII EVILS OF DRINK
- CHAPTER VIII SCHOOL
- CHAPTER IX SOARING
- CHAPTER X UNCLE JOHN
- CHAPTER XI FIDELITY OF A LITTLE DOG
- CHAPTER XII MISS RENNSDALE ACCEPTS
- CHAPTER XIII THE SMALLPOX MEDICINE
- CHAPTER XIV MAURICE LEVY'S CONSTITUTION
- CHAPTER XV THE TWO FAMILIES
- CHAPTER XVI THE NEW STAR
- CHAPTER XVII RETIRING FROM THE SHOW BUSINESS
- CHAPTER XVIII MUSIC
- CHAPTER XIX THE INNER BOY
- CHAPTER XX BROTHERS OF ANGELS
- CHAPTER XXI RUPE COLLINS
- CHAPTER XXII THE IMITATOR
- CHAPTER XXIII COLOURED TROOPS IN ACTION
- CHAPTER XXIV "LITTLE GENTLEMAN"
- CHAPTER XXV TAR
- CHAPTER XXVI THE QUIET AFTERNOON
- CHAPTER XXVII CONCLUSION OF THE QUIET AFTERNOON
- CHAPTER XXVIII TWELVE
- CHAPTER XXIX FANCHON
- CHAPTER XXX THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
- CHAPTER XXXI OVER THE FENCE
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