by Jean Webster · De Agostini · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788841514115
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«Papà Gambalunga» is the classic novel by Jean Webster, published by De Agostini in paperback (160 pages, in Italian).
Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old orphan, gets the chance to study thanks to an anonymous benefactor who only asks her to write him letters. In those missives, addressed to the man she nicknames Papà Gambalunga, she recounts her daily life and personal growth with humour, in a story about identity, social class and the value of education.
Novel originally published in 1912 as Daddy Long-Legs and the first instalment of the eponymous series. This Italian edition, from 2005, is translated by Paola Fontana.
Recommended for readers from 8 years old and for those seeking a classic coming-of-age story for young people.
Jean Webster was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster, an American author whose books include Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. 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.
