Daddy-Long-Legs

Apr 21, 2025 1:37 AM

Author:Jean Webster

Daddy-Long-Legs

The grandniece of Mark Twain is now remembered only for the last two books she wrote, DADDY-LONG-LEGS (1912) and its sequal DEAR ENEMY (1915). Both remain endearing stories that, as the critic Naomi Lewis says ' make rewarding reading'. Told in the form of letters, this modern version of the Cinderalla tale is an irresistible love-story of an orphan and her unknown benefactor.

Reviews

Stands out in triumph. It is firm, intelligent, in tune with twentieth-century mentality and well-written

—— Times Literary Supplement

Quite up to the best standards of its predecessors, and to all old Ransome devotees the return to the lake of the first novels gives an added pleasure

—— Glasgow Herald

The Alices are the greatest nonsense ever written, and far greater, in my view, than most sense.

—— Sir Philip Pullman

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