![]() ![]() It looks as though the owner of the book was trying to figure out the length of a side of a scalene triangle. ![]() What I found interesting about the marginalia I discovered, was that it wasn’t actually a message or a note of any kind, but instead a math problem. There have also been film adaptions, stage performances, and parodies based on the misadventures of Penrod and his friends. The second book, Penrod and Sam explores Penrod’s friends and other minor characters. These books provide comic sketches and the stories are about an 11-year-old boy named Penrod Schofield, growing up in a pre-World War 1 United States. Penrod and Sam is actually the sequel to Tarkington’s book Penrod, written in 1914 and there is another book named Penrod Jashber written in 1929 that is the final book and completes the series. ![]() The book was published in 1916 by Doubleday Page & Co, located in New York City. The book I picked up was Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington. After looking through much more then 20 books, I finally found an interesting yet slightly comical example of marginalia. ![]()
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