Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster

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Step into a world of wit, warmth, and wonderful correspondence with Daddy-Long-Legs, the enchanting epistolary novel by Jean Webster that has captured hearts for over a century.

This is the story of Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, a spirited and intelligent young orphan whose life is turned upside down when a mysterious, anonymous benefactor—a trustee of the orphanage she grew up in—offers to send her to college. His only conditions are that she must write him a letter each month to report on her academic and social progress, and that he will never reply.

Known to her only as "Mr. John Smith," Judy nicknames her elusive patron Daddy-Long-Legs based on the fleeting shadow she once saw of his elongated form. Through her letters—fresh, funny, and fiercely honest—we follow Judy’s incredible journey from a naive girl to an independent, modern woman. She shares her discoveries, her struggles with society's expectations, her literary ambitions, and her mischievous adventures, all addressed to the father figure she has never met but increasingly feels connected to.