Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
Jean Webster - Author
ISBN 9780143039068 | 384 pages | 30 Nov 2004 | Penguin Classics | 5.15 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
Summary of Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
Summary of Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
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Two vivacious epistolary novels of young womanhood
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One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster’s 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 Judy’s former orphanage, now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life.
One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster’s 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 Judy’s former orphanage, now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life. |
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