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She has seen him once, as a tall shadow thrown on a wall. She writes to him every month, and he never writes back.
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About this edition
First published in 1912, Daddy-Long-Legs is Jean Webster’s best loved book and one of the great novels told in letters.
Jerusha “Judy” Abbott, the oldest orphan in the John Grier Home, is lifted out of a life of drudgery by an anonymous trustee who agrees to send her to college on one strange condition: that she write to him every month, and never expect a reply. Told entirely in Judy’s headlong, funny, brimming letters, it is the story of a girl’s mind and heart waking up to the world, and of a fondness that grows, letter by letter, into something she never expected.
The complete novel, freshly typeset with the epistolary form honoured in its design, dates and signatures set apart and letters spaced as letters, behind an original mixed media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs. This clean text edition does not carry the author’s original pen and ink sketches.
Details
- Jean Webster (1876–1916)
- The complete 1912 novel
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 126 pages