This is the much-loved tale of Judy Abbott, a lively, endearing young girl growing up in an orphanage. Her dreams of college seem in vain until the unknown benefactor offers to pay for her tuition. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month, and that she can never know who he is. Judy's letters to him about life at college are full of her hopes and dreams, troubles, and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much going on in her life, Judy can scarcely stop writing, and when she discovers who daddy long-legs is, there is a happily-ever-after surprise.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Apple, Children's Classics, Childrens Illustrated Classics, Everyman's Library, Everyman's Library Children's Classics, Everymans Library Childrens Classics, Knight Books, Pilot Books, Puffin, Puffin Classics, The Classic Stories .

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published in 1995 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .

Jean Webster (1876-1916) was born Alice Jane Chandler Webster in Fredonia, New York. A grand-niece of Mark Twain, she had several novels published in her lifetime, but it was the bestseller Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) that brought her great popular acclaim. It was later developed into a stage play and several movies.