Word: penmark
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Everyone loved Rhoda Penmark. She was a charming child of eight, neat, precise, with delightful manners. Her brown bangs and braids, her dimple and the cute gap between her front teeth made her a favorite of all the neighbors. She could devastate her parents by simply tossing her head charmingly and asking: "What will you give me, if I give you a basket of kisses?" The loving reply always was: "I'll give you a basket of hugs...
...progressive school in Baltimore, and why did the old-fashioned sisters who ran an old-fashioned school in a Gulf coast city put her out of theirs not long after Rhoda's father was transferred to the South? Before The Bad Seed is fully under way, Mrs. Penmark knows the answers to these questions, and the shock is more than she can bear. For Rhoda is a born bundle of sweet-miened sin, a youngster of good family and favorable environment who is quite ready to kill others for whatever she may covet...
...Penmark becomes fully aware of her daughter's character. Before she can bring herself to act, Rhoda burns alive the sleeping handyman who has guessed her part in the drowning. What her mother learns about her own share in Rhoda's guilt, what she does about it and how Rhoda makes out are non-cricket revelations. But The Bad Seed cannot be put aside without lingering shivers...
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