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Comedy / 6m, 1f, 6c or 4m, 4f, 3c / 4 ints. Judy is a pretty drudge
in a New England orphanage. One day a visiting trustee becomes
interested in her and decides to give her a chance. She does not
know the name of her benefactor, but simply calls him Daddy Long
Legs. She writes him letters brimming over with fun and affection.
From the home she goes to a fashionable college where a romance
develops that constitutes much of the play's charm. The orphans
appear only in the first act and may be played by small girls of
any age. "If you write down the words delightful, charming, sweet,
beautiful and entertaining, and add them up, the answer will be
Daddy Long Legs." - The New York Times
In DADDY LONG-LEGS a trustee of the John Grier orphanage has
offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are
that she must write to him every month and that she can never know
who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends,
classes, parties and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis
Pendleton. With so much happening in her life, Judy can scarcely
stop writing to 'Daddy-Long-Legs', or wondering who her mysterious
benefactor is... An amusing coming of age story for all young
people.
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Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy (Paperback)
Jean Webster; Introduction by Elaine Showalter; Notes by Elaine Showalter
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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. For more than seventy years,
Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the
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Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout
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to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes
by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Dear Enemy
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Jean Webster
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