DaddyLongLegs, Jean Webster
DaddyLongLegs, Jean Webster
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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


Synopsis

Jerusha Abbott is the oldest orphan in the John Grier Home. Every day she helps scrub and dress the younger children-all 97 of them. Soon she will graduate from high school and be on her own. Where will she go, and how will she support herself? When an anonymous wealthy donor decides to send her to college, Jerusha can hardly believe her good fortune. All she must do in return is send him a letter once a month. With all the excitement of college life-classes, parties, new friends, and a special gentleman-Jerusha can hardly stop writing! Jean Webster's entertaining tale of a high-spirited orphan girl coming-of-age in the early 1900s has been made into a play, several movies, and a musical comedy. Kate Forbes' fresh portrayal of Jerusha will win the hearts of a new generation of readers.

About Jean Webster

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christy on February 01, 2008

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

Goodreads review by Raya راية on August 01, 2016

"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

Goodreads review by Pakinam on March 19, 2024

"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

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on February 08, 2017

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