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Jerry Junior
Jerry Junior – Jean Webster ‚Jerry Junior‘, by Jean Webster, is a delightful little romance for light reading. The hero, an ingenious American youth, finds himself stranded at an Italian hotel with no diversion but the view, the head waiter, and the parrot, whose vocabulary is enlarged with some choice American expressions. In a pink […]
The Wheat Princess
The Wheat Princess – Jean Webster In this novel a study is presented of a common enough American experience, but from a new point of view. Copley, the wheat king, has cornered the American supply of wheat. His daughter Marcia, who is in Italy, is forced to see the people starving and rebellious because her […]
When Patty Went To College
When Patty Went To College – Jean Webster Of all the college stories that have been published in the past hundred or so years, those gathered by Jean Webster into her book ‚When Patty Went to College‘ are among the best. Never before has that subtle and much-abused thing known as “ college atmosphere“ been […]
Dear Enemy
Dear Enemy – Jean Webster ‚Dear Enemy‘, by Jean Webster, is a novel the events of which are related in the form of letters by the heroine. A formal introduction, indeed, to one of the most intimate, realistic and thoroughly enjoyable pieces of fiction ever! How a charming young woman, all depths and tenderness under […]
Daddy-Long-Legs
Daddy-Long-Legs – Jean Webster The books of Jean Webster, like ‚Just Patty‘ or ‚When Patty Went to College‘ have already shown her rare touch of humor. The letters which Judy writes to her anonymous benefactor might have been cut and dried formal reports of college work; but they aren’t, for Judy is an electric bundle […]
Just Patty
Just Patty – Jean Webster A book which relates some of the earlier adventures of the Patty who went to college. The adventures are of the happy, healthy sort in which every girl of school age will delight. Older readers, too, who have already made Patty’s acquaintance as a college girl will enjoy these stories […]
Much Ado About Peter
Much Ado About Peter – Jean Webster The reader that would have the delightful experience of falling- in love with the Carters‘ serving-maid must read ‚Much Ado About Peter‘ by Jean Webster. And, incidentally, she who would rather not fall in love with the Carters‘ groom had better avoid this collection of short stories about […]
The Four Pools Mystery
The Four Pools Mystery – Jean Webster Here is one of the best, if not the best, stories of mystery and tragedy of the 1900 years. To ‚Four-Pools,‘ a quiet stock-farm set in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, comes a worn-out New York lawyer for a vacation. He is a witness of many curious things and […]