Jean Webster
2) Dear Enemy
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Sallie McBride, the new director of the John Grier Home for Orphans, keeps her friends posted on the latest occurrences in that institution.
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When Patty Went to College is Jean Webster's first novel, published in 1903. It is a humorous look at life in an all-girls college at the turn of the 20th century. Patty Wyatt, the protagonist of this story is a bright, fun loving, imperturbable girl who does not like to conform. The book describes her many escapades on campus during her senior year at college. Patty enjoys life on campus and uses her energies in playing pranks and for the entertainment...
4) Just Patty
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Patty and her two best friends Conny and Priscilla are appalled when they find out they've been separated as roommates for their senior year at Saint Ursula's boarding school. Patty will not let it stand and the girls come up with schemes to go back to rooming with one another. The book follows Conny, Priscilla, Patty and their schoolmates (but mostly Patty) through their senior year. It's a series of vignettes about friendship, mischief and growing...
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This is the appealing, unforgettable story of „Judy", who grows up to seventeen in the John Greer Home For Orphans. Then a wealthy unknown, in reality one of the directors of the home, sends her to college, with plenty of pretty clothes and pocket money, and Judy takes to good times and culture with enthusiasm. Her letters to "Daddy-Long-Legs", her unknown benefactor – kindle the romance of his life and hers. When the wealthy unknown falls in...
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Excerpt: "If you leave the city by the Porta Maggiore and take the Via Prænestina, which leads east into the Sabine hills, at some thirty-six kilometers' distance from Rome you will pass on your left a grey-walled village climbing up the hillside. This is Palestrina, the old Roman Præneste; and a short distance beyond-also on the left-you will find branching off from the straight Roman highway a steep mountain road, which, if you stick to it long...
7) Jerry
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"Jerry Junior" is a 1907 novel by American writer Jean Webster's. Her third novel, it follows a wealthy upper class American called Jerry who sets about to woo an attractive American woman whilst waiting for his sister to arrive in an Italian village. Set in the 1900s, this romantic comedy will appeal to those with an interest in romantic fiction and Italy at the turn of the twentieth century. "Jean Webster" is the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler...
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"The Four-Pools Mystery" is a 1908 novel by Jean Webster. "Jean Webster" is the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876 – 1916), an American writer who authored many well-known books including "Daddy-Long-Legs" and "Dear Enemy". Her most famous works are often characterized by powerful, likeable young female main characters who experience a maturation and intellectual coming-of-age morally and socially. Including witty humor, snappy dialogue,...
9) Jerry Junior
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"Jerry Junior" is a 1907 novel by American writer Jean Webster's. Her third novel, it follows a wealthy upper class American called Jerry who sets about to woo an attractive American woman whilst waiting for his sister to arrive in an Italian village. Set in the 1900s, this romantic comedy will appeal to those with an interest in romantic fiction and Italy at the turn of the twentieth century. "Jean Webster" is the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler...
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We follow Peter's life while working as a groom for the wealthy Carter family. He has to deal with rowdy young children of his upper class employers, who tend to both look down and up to Peter. There's plenty of slapstick humor with pranks and tricks being played by the children. Later, Peter starts making odd and questionable decisions, but all ends up well.
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Judy Abbot, que ha vivido toda su vida en un orfanato, tiene un misterioso benefactor que está dispuesto a pagarle los estudios. A cambio, ella solo tiene que enviarle una carta al mes, no hacer preguntas, y nunca esperar respuestas. Pero sus cartas están muy lejos de ser las de una modosa huerfanita. Judy mezcla las anécdotas universitarias con sus ideas, dibujos y teorías sobre quién será su benefactor, al que llama Papá Piernaslargas. Una...
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Patty Wyatt is a fun-loving, headstrong, and intelligent girl who gets herself into mischief and learns valuable lessons, both in and out of the classroom. Now you can hear the complete story in this box set, from Patty's boarding school days to her college life. Just Patty was masterfully crafted by Jean Webster as a prequel to her classic title, When Patty Went to College.
Producer's note: These audiobooks were read from the original texts, which...