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Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy | Jean Webster
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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 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy | Jean Webster
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My rainy day reading. Dear Enemy definitely didn't age as well as Daddy-Long-Legs, but I'm enjoying its sweetness! ☔

tpixie I‘ve been wanting to read Daddy Long Legs. It‘s always mentioned as an example of an epistolary novel. I just finished & loved @AmyStewart ‘s most recent novel
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Linsy @tpixie I'm finding I love an epistolary novel! I saw the musical, then saw that the actress read the audiobook, so I kind of came to this series through the back door. But I love Jean Webster now!! Daddy-Long-Legs is definitely the superior novel, in my opinion. And a sweet coming-of-age story. (edited) 4y
tpixie @Linsy oh how fun!! I love epistolary novels as well. They are a little harder to do on audio because they are so visual. I did love
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Linsy @tpixie Ooh, that one's epistolary? I've had it on my TBR for a while, but this definitely bumps it up. Have you read Ella Minnow Pea? It's so weird and wonderful. It's epistolary, and slowly certain letters start disappearing. Hard to explain, but I loved it so much!
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tpixie @Linsy no thanks! I‘ll have to read it!! 4y
tpixie @Linsy what a great title! 4y
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Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy | Jean Webster
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Day 18 of #20Series20Days #Top20Series I ❤️ epistolary novels.

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LeahBergen I still need to hunt down this edition of Dear Enemy. 💙💙 4y
Ruthiella I didn‘t realize there was a second book!? 😀 4y
rubyslippersreads @Ruthiella I wouldn‘t exactly call it a sequel, but it is related. 4y
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BiblioLitten Look at those editions🤩🤩 4y
TheAromaofBooks Oh I have that same edition of Dear Enemy and I love it!! @Ruthiella - I actually love Dear Enemy even more than DDL. It's about Judy's friend Sallie McBride, who is convinced (somewhat unwillingly) to manage the orphanage where Judy grew up, now under the patronage of the Pendletons. It's just a delightful story! 4y
rubyslippersreads @TheAromaofBooks Now you have me wanting to reread Dear Enemy. 😊 4y
TheAromaofBooks I read it again not long ago. I do think part of it may be that when Sallie gets free of her romantic entanglement she expresses feelings about how being with him meant that she was constantly pretending and not really being herself - and when I first read this, I had just exited a similar relationship. The guy wasn't a bad guy, he just wasn't the right person for me. It's left me with a forever-warm feeling towards Sallie!! 4y
Linsy Ohmygosh, I didn‘t know about Dear Enemy! I just recently found Daddy Long Legs after seeing the play. So excited there‘s more!! 4y
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Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy | Jean Webster
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#funfridayphoto A favorite old-fashioned book, set at least partially at a college. (It's a great musical, too!)

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[DELETED] 2232195534 That's a great pick! 8y
rubyslippersreads @kaysreadinglife Thanks! I especially love this cover. 😀 8y
DebinHawaii Great pick! I should have thought of this one. A favorite for sure. I have my dad's old play book/script from when he played Jervis Pendleton in the 1940s community theater. 👍😀❤️ 8y
rubyslippersreads @DebinHawaii How fun! 😀 8y
Dragon Love the old Fred Astaire movie 8y
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