Jean Webster
1) Jerry Junior
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"Jerry Junior" is a 1907 novel by American writer Jean Webster's. Her third novel, it follows a wealthy upper class American called Jerry who sets about to woo an attractive American woman whilst waiting for his sister to arrive in an Italian village. Set in the 1900s, this romantic comedy will appeal to those with an interest in romantic fiction and Italy at the turn of the twentieth century. "Jean Webster" is the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler...
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Jerusha Judy Abbott's life is drastically changed one day, when a mysterious and rich benefactor scoops her up from an orphanage-the only home she has ever known and offers to pay her way through college. Her benefactor has many requests, the two most important being that she uses this opportunity to become a writer, and that she writes him monthly to update him on her studies. To maintain his air of mystery, he never responds, and requests that Judy...
3) Just Patty
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Patty and her two best friends Conny and Priscilla are appalled when they find out they've been separated as roommates for their senior year at Saint Ursula's boarding school. Patty will not let it stand and the girls come up with schemes to go back to rooming with one another. The book follows Conny, Priscilla, Patty and their schoolmates (but mostly Patty) through their senior year. It's a series of vignettes about friendship, mischief and growing...
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When Patty Went to College is Jean Webster's first novel, published in 1903. It is a humorous look at life in an all-girls college at the turn of the 20th century. Patty Wyatt, the protagonist of this story is a bright, fun loving, imperturbable girl who does not like to conform. The book describes her many escapades on campus during her senior year at college. Patty enjoys life on campus and uses her energies in playing pranks and for the entertainment...
5) Dear Enemy
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The sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs finds Judy Abbott's best friend Sallie McBride taking total control over the John Grier Home, the orphanage where Judy grew up. Chronicling her hilarious yet heart-felt day-to-day interactions with the permanent residents of the John Grier Home, Sallie spills her heart out in letter after letter to multiple recipients, including the doctor of the JGH-one Robin MacRae, whom she has deemed her enemy and refers to him as...
6) Jerry
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"Jerry Junior" is a 1907 novel by American writer Jean Webster's. Her third novel, it follows a wealthy upper class American called Jerry who sets about to woo an attractive American woman whilst waiting for his sister to arrive in an Italian village. Set in the 1900s, this romantic comedy will appeal to those with an interest in romantic fiction and Italy at the turn of the twentieth century. "Jean Webster" is the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler...
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"The Four-Pools Mystery" is a 1908 novel by Jean Webster. "Jean Webster" is the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876 – 1916), an American writer who authored many well-known books including "Daddy-Long-Legs" and "Dear Enemy". Her most famous works are often characterized by powerful, likeable young female main characters who experience a maturation and intellectual coming-of-age morally and socially. Including witty humor, snappy dialogue,...
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Excerpt: "If you leave the city by the Porta Maggiore and take the Via Prænestina, which leads east into the Sabine hills, at some thirty-six kilometers' distance from Rome you will pass on your left a grey-walled village climbing up the hillside. This is Palestrina, the old Roman Præneste; and a short distance beyond-also on the left-you will find branching off from the straight Roman highway a steep mountain road, which, if you stick to it long...
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Judy Abbot, que ha vivido toda su vida en un orfanato, tiene un misterioso benefactor que está dispuesto a pagarle los estudios. A cambio, ella solo tiene que enviarle una carta al mes, no hacer preguntas, y nunca esperar respuestas. Pero sus cartas están muy lejos de ser las de una modosa huerfanita. Judy mezcla las anécdotas universitarias con sus ideas, dibujos y teorías sobre quién será su benefactor, al que llama Papá Piernaslargas. Una...
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Daddy Long-Legs illustrated Jean Webster - Daddy Long-Legs is a book written by Jean Webster and first published in 1912. It tells the story of Jerusha Abbott, who grew up in an orphanage but was sent to college by a mysterious benefactor she calls Daddy Long-Legs. In college she falls in love with a young man who wants to marry her, but she refuses because she is an orphan. Finally, after Jerusha--now Judy--graduates, she asks to meet her benefactor....
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We follow Peter's life while working as a groom for the wealthy Carter family. He has to deal with rowdy young children of his upper class employers, who tend to both look down and up to Peter. There's plenty of slapstick humor with pranks and tricks being played by the children. Later, Peter starts making odd and questionable decisions, but all ends up well.
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This meticulously edited collection contains the best works of Jean Webster, American author of novels for young women. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.
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"Daddy-Long-Legs" is a tale of Judy Abbott,...
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"Just Patty" — Patty and her two best friends Conny and Priscilla are appalled when they find out they've been separated as roommates for their senior year at Saint Ursula's boarding school. Patty will not let it stand and the girls come up with schemes to go back to rooming with one another. They get into all sorts of mischief and shenanigans as they complete their final year at their private boarding school.
"When Patty Went to College" presents...