The Lady from Philadelphia: The Peterkin Papers
Title | The Lady from Philadelphia: The Peterkin Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Lucretia P. Hale |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2019-08-27 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1681373777 |
The Lady from Philadelphia records the antics of the most memorably and hopelessly bumbling of respectable American families. 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. Only the timely intervention of their great and good friend, the lady from Philadelphia, can be counted on to get the Peterkins out of their latest scrape. A classic of American children’s literature and a masterpiece of deadpan drollery, The Lady from Philadelphia restores 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.
The Complete Peterkin Papers
Title | The Complete Peterkin Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Lucretia P. Hale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1960 |
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The Complete Peterkin Papers
Title | The Complete Peterkin Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Lucretia Peabody Hale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1960 |
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The Complete Peterkin Papers
Title | The Complete Peterkin Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Lucretia P. Hale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1960 |
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The Peterkin Papers
Title | The Peterkin Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Lucretia Peabody Hale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | Families |
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The Peterkin family goes through life in a very muddle headed way, but the "lady from Philadelphia" is always there to straighten them out.
The Lady who Put Salt in Her Coffee
Title | The Lady who Put Salt in Her Coffee PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Schwartz |
Publisher | Harcourt Childrens Books |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Coffee |
ISBN | 9780152434755 |
When Mrs. Peterkin accidentally puts salt in her coffee, the entire family embarks on an elaborate quest to find someone to make it drinkable again.
Scarlet Sister Mary
Title | Scarlet Sister Mary PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Peterkin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | African American teenage girls |
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Scarlet Sister Mary is the story of a free-spirited woman's life in the post-Emancipation South [Carolina]. It is unique in its portrayal of an African-American community as capable of independent existence in the South at that time. The culture of the community is portrayed most interestingly and permeates through the religious, spiritual and even medical undertones of story. While Peterkin tells a poetic tale of an independent, strong, rebellious woman ... --Bobby Jasak at Amazon.com.