This is the much-loved tale of Judy Abbott, a lively, endearing young girl growing up in an orphanage. Her dreams of college seem in vain until the unknown benefactor offers to pay for her tuition. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month, and that she can never know who he is. Judy's letters to him about life at college are full of her hopes and dreams, troubles, and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much going on in her life, Judy can scarcely stop writing, and when she discovers who daddy long-legs is, there is a happily-ever-after surprise.

Daddy-Long-Legs (Puffin Classics)

Children's Books

Jean, Webster

Classics

Puffin

Daddy-long-legs

When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was "family." But everything was not perfect, for he chose to remain anonymous and asked that she only write him concerning her progress in school. Who was this mysterious gentleman and would Jerusha ever meet him?

Daddy-long-legs (Knight Books)

Literature & Fiction

Knight

Daddy-Long-Legs

Grosset&Dunlap

A book of this grade is in acceptable shape to read and store. Definitely content are intact. Generally sturdy spine with all pages intact physically. Generally solid cover. Typically have decent shelve wear. Might includes acceptable highlights and notes.

Dear Enemy

Literary

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

An orphaned girl named Judy Abbott and an unknown, unseen benefactor who sends her to college and whom she refers to as "Daddy-Long-Legs" are the two principals in this immensely popular modern-day fairy tale. Told through Judy's letters and illustrated by her own quaint drawings, DADDY-LONG-LEGS is a profound and tender homage to the power of awakening love.

Everyman"s Library

Jean Webster was the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876-1916), an American writer whose best-known books tell the stories of young and likeable female protagonists as they come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, combining humour, witty dialogue, and gently biting social commentary. In 1897 she entered Vassar College where a course in welfare and penal reform led to an interest in social issues that would last throughout her life. Her experiences at Vassar provided material for her first novel When Patty Went to College (1903) in which she described contemporary women's college life. On a trip to Europe Webster befriended fellow American Ethelyn McKinney, and later began an affair with Ethelyn's married brother, Glenn Ford McKinney, who she eventually married after his divorce in 1915. Just Patty, a prequel to her first novel, was published in 1911, after which came her greatest success, Daddy-Long-Legs (1912), an epistolary novel about an orphan, Judy (formerly Jerusha) Abbott, whose attendance at a women's college is funded by an anonymous benefactor. Webster adapted the book into a play which was equally successful. The sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), also proved a bestseller. Again, the story is presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy's classmate and best friend, who is standing in as superintendant at the orphanage where Judy's husband is president. Among the recipients of Sallie's laters are Judy, her husband, Gordon Hallock, a wealthy politician who later becomes Sallie's fiance, and the orphanage doctor who she often refers to as 'Dear Enemy'. The novel charts Sallie's progression from frivolous socialite to the realisation that she has found her true vocation in reforming the orphanage and caring for the orphans' diverse emotional needs. This edition includes the author's own illustrations. Webster died in 1916 after giving birth to her only child, a daughter named Jean in her memory.

Dear Enemy (Illustrated Edition)

Echo Library

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Just Patty (1911)

Kessinger Publishing

Your letter is here. I have read it twice, and with amazement. Do I understand that Jervis has given you, for a Christmas present, the making over of the John Grier Home into a model institution, and that you have chosen me to disburse the money? Me—I, Sallie McBride, the head of an orphan asylum! My poor people, have you lost your senses, or have you become addicted to the use of opium, and is this the raving of two fevered imaginations? I am exactly as well fitted to take care of one hundred children as to become the curator of a zoo.  And you offer as bait an interesting Scotch doctor? My dear Judy,—likewise my dear Jervis,—I see through you! I know exactly the kind of family conference that has been held about the Pendleton fireside.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

he courtyard of the Hotel du Lac, furnished with half a dozen tables and chairs, a red and green parrot chained to a perch, and a shady little arbor covered with vines, is a pleasant enough place for morning coffee, but decidedly too sunny for afternoon tea. It was close upon four of a July day, when Gustavo, his inseparable napkin floating from his arm, emerged from the cool dark doorway of the house and scanned the burning vista of tables and chairs. He would never, under ordinary circumstances, have interrupted his siesta for the mere delivery of a letter; but this particular letter was addressed to the young American man, and young American men, as every head waiter knows, are an unreasonably impatient lot. The court-yard was empty, as he might have foreseen, and he was turning with a patient sigh towards the long arbor that led to the lake, when the sound of a rustling paper in the summer house deflected his course. He approached the doorway and looked inside.

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Daddy-Long-Legs (Puffin Classics)

Daddy-long-legs

Daddy-long-legs (Knight Books)

Daddy-Long-Legs

Dear Enemy

Daddy-Long-Legs

Dear Enemy (Illustrated Edition)

Just Patty (1911)

Dear Enemy

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