Jean Webster: 49 books

De eerste Woensdag van elke maand was een echt in-vervelende dag, een dag, die vol angst tegemoet gezien werd, dapper doorstaan moest worden en dan weer zoo gauw mogelijk vergeten werd. Geen vlekje mocht er dan op de vloeren te bespeuren zijn, geen stofje op de stoelen en geen rimpel in de beddelakens....

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel. Born...

An orphaned girl named Judy Abbott and an unknown, unseen benefactor who sends her to college and whom she refers to as "Daddy-Long-Legs" are the two principals in this immensely popular modern-day fairy tale. Told through Judy's letters and illustrated by her own quaint drawings, DADDY-LONG-LEGS is a profound and tender homage to the power of awakening love.

First published in 1912, this classic epistolary novel is a delightful modern fairy tale about a plucky young orphan in search of her destiny.   For Jerusha Abbott, life has been anything but easy. Left to be raised in the bleak John Grier Home orphanage by unknown parents, she has no idea what her...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 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. Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed without...

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When Patty Went to College is a humorous novel about life in an all-girls' college at the turn of the century. Patty is a happy, fun-loving prankster who defends the weak and uses her clever brain only when it suits her. The end of the novel sees her contemplating life outside of college, and wondering whether her misbehavior will stand her in good stead for it.

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Daar voor me ligt nu je brief. Ik las hem twee keer over en nog altijd blijf ik paf van verbazing. Maar Judy! Hoe kan het ook in godsnaam tot me doordringen! Jervis heeft jou de algeheele verbetering van het John Grier Home als Kerstcadeau gegeven en nu wil jij, op jou beurt, mij aan het hoofd van...

The courtyard of the Hotel du Lac, furnished with half a dozen tables and chairs, a red and green parrot chained to a perch, and a shady little arbour covered with vines, is a pleasant enough place for morning coffee, but decidedly too sunny for afternoon tea. It was close upon four of a July day, when...

It was through the Patterson-Pratt forgery case that I first made the acquaintance of Terry Patten, and at the time I should have been more than willing to forego the pleasure. Our firm rarely dealt with criminal cases, but the Patterson family were long standing clients, and they naturally turned...

The courtyard of the Hotel du Lac, furnished with half a dozen tables and chairs, a red and green parrot chained to a perch, and a shady little arbor covered with vines, is a pleasant enough place for morning coffee, but decidedly too sunny for afternoon tea. It was close upon four of a July day, when...

One of the classics of American children’s literature, Daddy-Long-Legs tells the tale of Judy Abbott an ebullient orphan beginning a college degree with the aim of becoming a writer through her letters to the anonymous patron who is paying for her education.Judy is informed that she must write him...