by Jean Webster · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070519781
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«Papa-Longues-Jambes» is the young-adult epistolary novel by Jean Webster, published by Editions Gallimard in the Folio Junior collection (224 pages, in French).
Jerusha Abbott, an orphan raised in an orphanage, receives from an anonymous benefactor the opportunity to study at university in exchange for writing him monthly letters. The novel follows her university life through those missives, in which the young woman, who nicknames her protector «Papa-Longues-Jambes», shows her humour and her concerns.
Work originally published in 1912 as «Daddy-Long-Legs», it is the first title in the eponymous series. This French Folio Junior edition appeared in 1998 in paperback format.
Recommended for young readers from age 9 and for those seeking a story of personal growth narrated with irony.
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.
