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Lucretia P. Hale

The Peterkin Papers
By Lucretia P. Hale (1820-1900)

Ihe Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia
Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are a lovable but
comically inept family with ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy—but not
common sense. Many chapters show the family trying to solve some problem in a
roundabout way, failing, and eventually being rescued by “the wise old lady from
Philadelphia, who cuts the Gordian knot with an effective but prosaic solution. The
charm of the story is not in the plot, but in the telling, building up layers of
complication, and the affectionate fun poked at the not-guite-cartoonish
characters. The “wise old lady s” solution is usually obvious to the reader, even the
young listener, from the start. (summary from Wikipedia)

Read byLaura Caldwell, LMTobias, J. M. Smallheer, Katie Gibboney, Mary
Anderson, Madera, Melissa, Kristin Hughes, & Kara Shallenberg. Total running
time: 04:28:48.

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Cover picture from the 2nd edition, published by Houghton, Mifflin © Company (1893) Copyright expired in US, Canada,

EU and all countries with author's life +70 yrs laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.

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