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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. 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 to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: A. Williams and Company; Publication date: 1868; Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Romance / General; ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: American Unitarian Association in 1859 in 394 pages; Subjects: Devotional literature; Law / General; Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Law / International; Religion / Christian Life / Devotional; Religion / Devotional; Religion / Sermons / Christian; Travel / Essays & Travelogues; ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1892Original Publisher: Roberts brothersSubjects: Boston (Mass.)Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: II.HIS MOTHER TO HARRY.Atherton, Jnne 4.My Dear Boy, -- It is wonderful that you should be in Boston. Do not forget your father's cousin, old Miss Tryphena Dexter. I have no idea where she lives; but she goes to Dr. Gordon's church, or did go there. It will please her more than I can tell for you to go and see her.Thank you for writing never so little.Your poor old Mother.III.HARRY TO HIS MOTHER.Boston, June 10, 1891.My Dear Mother, -- I wrote you with a beastly pen, and ink that I had made myself by pouring water into an inkstand, a short letter, which I am afraid you could not read. Since I wrote that, I have seen some very good-natured people who print a newspaper here. They have agreed, for a consideration, to put all my letters to you in this nice type in which you will read this, -- so that I shall not have to give you the new spectacles which I promised you. You must not be troubled about the letters being in print. I never tell you any lies, and nobody will know who it is. I do not see why anybody else should take the trouble to read the letters ; but if they do they may, as far as I am concerned, and I do not think it will hurt them.If the newspaper people are satisfied, that is all you and I need care for.Dear mother, you know how I hate to write, andby doing this I get the great advantage that I need write only to you, and do not have to get up a lot of scrub side-letters to send to my other correspondents. For all I have to do is to fold up one of these newspapers, and send it to Jerry, or to Mr. Wilder, or ... ... Read more

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The Peterkin Papers record 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 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.
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Elizabeth Eliza joined the Circumambient Club with the idea that it
would be a long time before she, a new member, would have to read a
paper. She would have time to hear the other papers read, and to see how
it was done; and she would find it easy when her turn came. By that time
she would have some ideas; and long before she would be called upon,
she would have leisure to sit down and write out something. But a year
passed away, and the time was drawing near. She had, meanwhile, devoted
herself to her studies, and had tried to inform herself on all subjects
by way of preparation. She had consulted one of the old members of the
Club as to the choice of a subject.
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