Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy (Paperback or Softback)

Webster, Jean

ISBN 10: 0143039067 / ISBN 13: 9780143039068

Editore: Penguin Books 11/30/2004, 2004

Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Codice articolo BBS-9780143039068

Riassunto:

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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Informazioni sull'autore: 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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Titolo: Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy (Paperback or...
Casa editrice: Penguin Books 11/30/2004
Data di pubblicazione: 2004
Legatura: Paperback or Softback
Condizione: New
Tipologia articolo: Book