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

Jean Webster

 
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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 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.

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9782382747971: Dear Enemy: The sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs

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ISBN 10:  2382747978 ISBN 13:  9782382747971
Publisher: Les Prairies Numeriques, 2020
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