Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Webster, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143039067 ISBN 13: 9780143039068

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2004

Synopsis

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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About this title

About the Author:

Jean Webster (1876–1916) was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster. She was a grandniece of Mark Twain and the author of eight novels, her writing career blossomed amid the suffragist culture of upstate New York and Greenwich Village.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0143039067
• ISBN 13: 9780143039068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 357
• Editor: Showalter Elaine