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DADDY LONG LEGS by JEAN WEBSTER
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Daddy-Long-LegsJean WebsterFirst published in 1912, this young adult novel is comprised mostly of letters from orphan Jerusha "Judy" Abbott to her anonymous benefactor whom she names "Daddy Long Legs". The letters chronicle her departure from the orphanage through four years of college. Judy makes new f ...Show more
Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster
Category: Children's Classics
One of the classics of American children's literature, Daddy-Long-Legs tells the tale of Judy Abbott - an ebullient orphan beginning a college degree with the aim of becoming a writer - through her letters to the anonymous patron who is paying for her education. Judy is informed that she must write him ...Show more
Daddy Long-Legs (Puffin Classics) by Jean Webster
Category: Children's Classics
A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis P ...Show more
Daddy Long Legs and Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Websteras Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), follows the progress of Jud ...Show more
Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
Category: Classics
Jean Webster (1876-1916) was an American novelist, playwright, and social activist. During the start of the twentieth century (1912), Webster wrote "Daddy-Long-Legs", an epistolary, best-selling novel that she developed into a play. It met with much success, and the characters were sold as dolls, the mo ...Show more
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