Books with title The Peterkin papers

A collection of stories written by Lucretia Peabody Hale, the daughter of Nathan Hale and sister of Edward Everett Hale, featuring the lovable Peterkin family, a "typical" Victorian-era family. This edition includes 35 Peterkin stories with the original woodcut illustrations, beginning with "The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee" and ending with "The Last of the Peterkins."

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.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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,

A most charming and entertaining story of a family totally devoid of common sense who muddle through their adventures with life's challenges with love and cooperation, but find when they come to their wits' end it is time to consult the wise, sensible "Lady from Philadelphia" who manages to extricate them from their troubles with sensible commonplace but boring solutions.

The Peterkin Papers is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.