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Daddy-Long-Legs (Puffin Classics)
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Item Description...
The unforgettable letters of a high-spirited orphan to 'Daddy-Long-Legs,' her anonymous benefactor. 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! Complete and unabridged.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 185
Dimensions: Length: 7.8" Width: 5.1" Height: 0.7"
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jul 1, 1995
Publisher PENGUIN GROUP USA #711
ISBN 0140374558
EAN 9780140374551
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 | These letters aren't all that good? Jan 16, 2010 |
A movie I remember from when I was young is Daddy Long Legs.
An orphanage raised girl turns out to be very smart at school
and in creative writing, but just really can't read people at all well.
About the second Julia's uncle Jervis showed up I figured he must be
someone connected to the Trustees of the orphanage.
Yet is takes her another four years to make any connection?
As romances go this is a strange one where an adult benefactor waits
for a girl to grow up.
Too many times adults have preyed on young girls alone in the world
as Judy /Jerusha is.
I don't think it is a good theme for young girls to take in. | | |  | Daddy-Long-Legs Jan 12, 2010 |
I adore this book! It's such a light, warm-hearted story of a girl's first entrance into the world, full of vim and fire on how she can find her place in it and make it better. Jerusha writes as an American woman before women had the right to vote (how's that for a stumbling sentence?) and her letters are full of witty repartee about women citizens and her dreams of becoming a writer and her absolute popularity at school. It's easy to see why she's so popular when she has such a sparkling sense of humor:
Dear Comrade,
Hooray! I'm a Fabian.
That's a Socialist who's willing to wait. We don't want the social revolution to come tomorrow morning; it would be too upsetting. We want it to come very gradually in the distant future, when we shall all be prepared and able to sustain the shock.
In the meantime, we must be getting ready, by instituting industrial, educational and orphan asylum reforms.
Yours, with fraternal love,
Judy
But even while she laughs and plays and enjoys herself, Jerusha/Judy is fully aware of the debt she owes the philanthropist who sent her to school, and realizes how different she is from everyone else around her. Her more introspective letters, talking about how lonely she feels without any friend who really knows her past circumstances, are so touching and well-written:
Half the time I don't know what the girls are talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that every one but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all my life. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me. I was queer and different and everybody knew it.
Even so, Jerusha manages to make friends and keep a smile on her face and become the successful writer she always hoped to be. Daddy-Long-Legs is a wonderful story about a girl who uses a gift to come into her own, becoming a confident and easy-to-love young woman who serves as a strong role model for any girl. "I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish-- and that is the belief that moves mountains."
After reading this story, you'll believe in her, too! I highly recommend this story to anyone who wants to feel warm and fuzzy inside. It's perfect! I wish that I had a hard copy of the book to read as, in e-mail format, I missed all the fun illustrations Jerusha put into her letters. | | | | Daddy-Long-Legs Nov 7, 2009 |
| This is an old book, one that I first read as a young girl. It's mentioned as one of the few novels written exclusively in the form of letters, in "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society", which made me curious to read it again. This second time around, I find it a delightful sort of period piece. | | | | A cute story. Jun 30, 2009 |
| A cute and well written book. It offers a glimpse of the early 1900s in the United States. It would be a great read for a budding writer. Creationist be advised that there is a statement in the book concerning evolutional beliefs "I didn't know that people used to be monkeys and that the Garden of Eden was a beautiful myth". | | | | Daddy Long-Legs transaction May 12, 2009 |
| The service this site provided was fast, and the product is excellent. I'm very happy with being a new customer of this site | | | Write your own review about Daddy-Long-Legs (Puffin Classics)
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