Daddy-Long-Legs
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
One of the most charming epistolary novels of the early twentieth century, Daddy-Long-Legs chronicles the remarkable journey of Jerusha Judy Abbott, a witty and irrepressible orphan girl who is granted a mysterious college scholarship by an unknown benefactor she nicknames Daddy-Long-Legs — seen only as a fleeting shadow. Told entirely through Judy's delightfully candid letters to this unseen patron, the novel captures her transformation from a wide-eyed girl discovering the world of literature and ideas for the first time to a young woman awakening to independence, ambition, and love. Jean Webster's masterwork is a triumph of voice and warmth, a novel that argues compellingly for the power of education and self-determination at a time when both were far from guaranteed for women. Webster's prose is brisk, witty, and deeply human, infused with a progressive spirit that feels surprisingly modern for a work first published in 1912. The identity of Daddy-Long-Legs may seem a delicious secret, but it is Judy's voice — curious, funny, and achingly real — that keeps readers turning pages long after the mystery is solved.
Author: Jean Webster
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
One of the most charming epistolary novels of the early twentieth century, Daddy-Long-Legs chronicles the remarkable journey of Jerusha Judy Abbott, a witty and irrepressible orphan girl who is granted a mysterious college scholarship by an unknown benefactor she nicknames Daddy-Long-Legs — seen only as a fleeting shadow. Told entirely through Judy's delightfully candid letters to this unseen patron, the novel captures her transformation from a wide-eyed girl discovering the world of literature and ideas for the first time to a young woman awakening to independence, ambition, and love. Jean Webster's masterwork is a triumph of voice and warmth, a novel that argues compellingly for the power of education and self-determination at a time when both were far from guaranteed for women. Webster's prose is brisk, witty, and deeply human, infused with a progressive spirit that feels surprisingly modern for a work first published in 1912. The identity of Daddy-Long-Legs may seem a delicious secret, but it is Judy's voice — curious, funny, and achingly real — that keeps readers turning pages long after the mystery is solved.