

Daddy-Long-Legs
Author: Jean Webster
Narrator: Kate Forbes
Unabridged: 4 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/18/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories
Author: Jean Webster
Narrator: Kate Forbes
Unabridged: 4 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 01/18/2013
Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories
Jean Webster is the pseudonym of American writer Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876-1916). Best known for her epistolary novel Daddy-Long-Legs, her other works include Dear Enemy, When Patty Went to College, Jerry Junior, and Just Patty, several of which Webster adapted for the stage. Born in Fredonia, New York, she attended Vassar College, where she majored in English and economics. Her writing, characterized by lively and likeable heroines, engaging dialogue, and clever humor, often addresses themes of women's education and suffrage and social reform.
I highly recommend that men DON'T read this, and I highly recommend that women - particularly girls who enjoy Little Women, Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, etc. (basically old-fashioned chick flick books with substance) - DO read this. It's sweet and funny and different, not h......more
"من المُمتع حقاً أن نعيش الكتب لا أن نكتبها." بعد قرائتي للرواية الكئيبة والمآساوية "لا تخبري ماما" لتوني ماغواير وما أحدثته في نفسي من أثر سيء؛ اخترت أن اقرأ رواية خفيفة تنشلني من هول الصدمات.. من المُمتع أيضاً أن تكتشف بأن مسلسلك الكرتوني المُفضّل "صاحب الظل الطويل" مأخوذ عن هذه الرواية. أبي طوي......more
"لقد اكتشفت السر الحقيقي للسعادة,ويكمن هذا في أن تعيش اللحظة وألا تتحسر على الماضي على الدوام,أوتفكر بالمستقبل ,بل أن تحصل على أكبر قدر من هذه اللحظة. سأستمتع بكل لحظة وسأعرف أنني أستمتع أثناء ذلك معظم الناس لايحيون, بل يكتفون بالجري,ويحاولون بلوغ هدف ما بعيد في الافق ثم يكون أول ما يكتشفونه أنهم صار......more
Daddy-Long-Legs is a delightful short novel written in 1912. Basically it's along the lines of "Anne Shirley goes to a girls' college." It's mostly epistolary, told in the form of letters written by the main character where she talks (and jokes) about her daily life. At the beginning of our story, Je......more