Books with author Lucretia P. 1820-1900 Hale

Confronted by the endless challenges of daily life, the Peterkins rise to every occasion with misguided aplomb: they sit out in the sun for hours and fail to go for a ride because they’ve forgotten to unhitch the horse, they play the piano from the porch through the parlor window because the movers left the keyboard turned that way, they decide to raise the ceiling to accommodate a too-tall Christmas tree. A classic of American children’s literature and a masterpiece of deadpan drollery, The Peterkin Papers restore our astonishment at the ordinary, finding a rich vein of humor and happy surprise in the mere fact of our surviving the trivialities and tribulations of family life.

Collection of stories about a family named Peterkin which made the Peterkins a household word. The collected stories were published in 1880 under the title The Peterkin Papers. The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy-but not common sense. The stories are charming to modern readers for the details they give of life in the 1870s as lived by an upper-middle-class family in a small village about an hour's train ride from Boston.

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Excerpt: ...Osborne, in despair; "they'll never guess 'P'!" The next scene was gorgeous. Solomon John, as a Turk, reclined on John Osborne's army-blanket. He had on a turban, and a long beard, and all the family shawls. Ann Maria and Elizabeth Eliza were brought in to him, veiled, by the little boys in their Hindoo costumes. This was considered the great scene of the evening, though Elizabeth Eliza was sure she did not know what to do,