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Jerusha Abbot (Judy) is an orphan who has spent her whole life in an asylum. She is good at writing so the mysterious Daddy-long-legs promises to send Jerusha to college...provided she follows his rules and writes him letters to tell him about her studies. The story is basically in the form... read more
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Characters edit
- Jerusha Abbott (Judy): an orphan. A trustee of the orphanage pays her way to college.
- Sallie McBride: Jerusha's (Judy's) best friend and comrade in college.
- Julia Rutledge Pendleton: A rich girl that Jerusha (Judy) Abbott interacts with in college.
- Mrs. Lippett: The governess at the John Grier Home (orphan asylum). Jerusha isn't very fond of her.
- Daddy-long-legs: Judy's benefactor
- Jervis Pendleton: Julia's uncle
- Jimmie McBride: Sallie's brother
- Amasai: Add a description of this character.
- Pepys
- William Shakespeare
- Freddy Perkins
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Matthew Arnold
- Mrs. Semple
- Leonora Fenton
- Mrs. McBride
- Tommy Dillon
- Mrs. Charles Paterson
- Jane Eyre
- Harry
- John Smith
- Carrie
- Henry
- Miss Pritchard
- Grove
Quotes edit
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“Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not”
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“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way”
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“It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.”
Jerusha Abbot
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It isn’t the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit.
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It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones—I’ve discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be forever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.
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The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, “Perhaps it’s all for the best,” when they are perfectly dead sure it’s not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I’m for a more militant religion!
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in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn’t make any difference whether they’ve reached the goal or not.
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I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.
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Youth has nothing to do with birthdays, only with aliveness of spirit,
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First Sentence edit
THE first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day - a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste.
Table of Contents edit
Blue Wednesday
Letters
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 2 in Daddy-Long-Legs. (standard series)
Followed by Dear Enemy.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jean Webster (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Troll Communications
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1912
ISBN: 0816714673
Page Count: 150
Publisher: Troll Communications
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1912
ISBN: 0816714673
Page Count: 150
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.52
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Movie Connections edit
- Daddy-Long-Legs (IMDb): 1919 movie staring Mary Pickford and Mahlon Hamilton.
- Daddy Long Legs (IMDb): 1931 movie staring Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter
- Vadertje Langbeen (IMDb): 1938 Dutch movie staring Lily Bouwmeester.
- Daddy Long Legs (IMDb): 1955 Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire.
- Watashi no ashinaga ojisan (IMDb): 1990 anime adaptation.
- Kidari ajeossi (IMDb): 2005 Korean movie staring Yun Jung Hoon and Ha Ji-won.
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