Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Ed. with an Introd. and Notes by Elaine Showalter (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Webster, Jean

 
9780143039068: Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Ed. with an Introd. and Notes by Elaine Showalter (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0143039067 ISBN 13: 9780143039068
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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 English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0143039067
ISBN 13 
9780143039068
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
Herausgeber
Showalter Elaine
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