Jean Webster

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“Daddy-Long-Legs” is a 1912 novel by American writer Jean Webster. It revolves around Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, a young girl who grew up in an orphanage. When she is seventeen and her schooling is over, she remains at the orphanage to work in the dormitories. One day, Judy is told that, convinced she has has potential to become an excellent writer, one of the charity trustees has offered to pay her way through college. “Daddy-Long-Legs” is an epistolary novel presented as the letters between Judy, and her unknown benefactor. “Jean Webster” is the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876 – 1916), an American writer who authored many well-known books including “Daddy-Long-Legs” and “Dear Enemy”. Her most famous works are often characterised by powerful, likeable young female main characters who experience a maturation and intellectual coming-of-age morally and socially. Including witty humour, snappy dialogue, and social commentary, her works are still read and enjoyed by readers today the world over. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Daddy-Long-Legs

رواية

عدوي اللدود

"Daddy-Long-Legs" – Jerusha "Judy" Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. At the age of 17, Judy is informed by the asylum's dour matron that one of the trustees has offered to pay her way through college. Judy catches a glimpse of the shadow of her benefactor from the back, and knows he is a tall long-legged man. Because of this, she jokingly calls him Daddy-Long-Legs. She has an obligation to write him a monthly letter, but she will never know his identity; she must address the letters to Mr. John Smith, and he never will reply. The letters chronicles Judy's educational, personal, and social growth as she attends a "girl's college" on the East Coast. "Dear Enemy" is the sequel to novel Daddy-Long-Legs and follows the story of Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's classmate and best friend in Daddy-Long-Legs. Dear Enemy shows how Sallie McBride grows from a frivolous socialite to a mature woman and an able executive. It also follows the development of Sallie's relationships with Gordon Hallock, a wealthy politician, and Dr. Robin MacRae, the orphanage's physician, (to whom Sallie addresses her letters: "Dear Enemy"). Both relationships are affected by Sallie's initial reluctance to commit herself to her job, and by her gradual realization of how happy the work makes her and how incomplete she'd feel without it.

Including "Dear Enemy"

1915. Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain. She was interested in social work, especially the fields of childcare and prison reform, but her main occupation was writing. She wrote a number of short stories and novels for younger readers including her most famous work, Daddy Long-Legs. In Dear Enemy, Sallie McBride, the dear friend of Judy Abbot (heroine of Daddy Long-Legs), accepts an appointment as superintendent of an orphanage and promptly embarks on a program of much needed reform. The book, while touching on serious social issues, does so in a delightfully written and entertaining manner.

Dear Enemy

Fast 18 Jahre hat Judy Abbott im Waisenhaus gelebt. Wegen ihrer literarischen Begabung wird sie nun von einem geheimnisvollen Wohltäter aufs College geschickt. Der Mann möchte namenlos bleiben, Judy soll ihm aber jeden Monat einen Brief über ihre Fortschritte schreiben. Voller Begeisterung stürzt sich Judy in dieses unbekannte Leben. Mehr als einmal im Monat schreibt sie „Mr Smith“, denn sie hat ja sonst niemanden auf der Welt, mit dem sie ihre Erlebnisse teilen kann. Briefe voller Witz, über Hüte und Literatur, über neue Freundschaften und immer öfter auch über den sympathischen Jervis Pendleton.

Lieber Daddy-Long-Legs

بابا لنگ دراز

Sallie McBride, the new director of the John Grier Home for Orphans, keeps her friends posted on the latest occurrences in that institution.

Mihrdād Mahdavīyān

Dushman-i ʻazīz

Lieber Feind

This is the appealing, unforgettable story of „Judy“, who grows up to seventeen in the John Greer Home For Orphans. Then a wealthy unknown, in reality one of the directors of the home, sends her to college, with plenty of pretty clothes and pocket money, and Judy takes to good times and culture with enthusiasm. Her letters to “Daddy-Long-Legs”, her unknown benefactor – kindle the romance of his life and hers. When the wealthy unknown falls in love with the adorable Judy, now a cultured young lady, she too discovers that he is something more than just a mysterious benefactor – a very human and lovable man.

(illustrated)

Daddy Long-Legs

Papà Gambalunga

Un bienfaiteur, qui désire rester anonyme, offre de t'envoyer à l'université. En échange, tu lui écriras chaque mois une lettre donnant des détails sur tes études et ta vie là-bas, une lettre comme tu en écrirais à tes parents, s'ils vivaient encore. Pour Judy Abbott, jeune orpheline élevée entre les murs d'un respectable et ennuyeux foyer, la proposition est aussi surprenante qu'inespérée. Elle accepte de bonne grâce de se plier aux exigences de son mystérieux tuteur auquel elle a donné le surnom affectueux de Papa-Longues-Jambes.

Papa-Longues-Jambes

Recounts the life of orphaned college student and aspiring writer Judy Abbott through her letters to her unknown male benefactor, and chronicles the progress of Judy's former orphanage run by idealistic Sallie McBride.

And, Dear Enemy

Daddy Long Legs

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جری جوان

An anonymous benefactor offers to pay for the education of seventeen-year-old Jerusha Abbott, the oldest orphan at the John Grier Home.

Jean Webster

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