Джин Вебстер была внучатой племянницей Марка Твена, и это заметно! Ее самая известная книга - "Длинноногий дядюшка" - была опубликована в 1911 году. Это история о силе пробуждающейся любви. Джуди Эббот 18 лет, и она уже слишком взрослая для приюта, в котором выросла. Ее опекуны не знают, что делать: девушка слишком умна, чтобы обучаться в домашней школе, но денег на колледж попросту нет. До тех пор, пока богатый попечитель не прочитает эссе, написанное Джуди, и оно его не рассмешит. Он предлагает отправить ее в колледж, чтобы она стала писательницей, при условии, что она будет регулярно писать ему письма и держать его в курсе событий. Есть только одна проблема: Джуди понятия не имеет, кем на самом деле является ее щедрый благодетель. Она знает три вещи: он богат, он высокий и не любит девушек. Он никогда не отвечает ей на письма, но незримым образом всегда присутствует в ее жизни...
Эта история, рассказанная в письмах "дорогому длинноногому дюдюшке", - о Золушке, которая учится в колледже, пытается приспособиться к своим богатым друзьям... и их красивым дядям (которые почему-то кажутся очень знакомыми). Jean Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain, and it shows. "Daddy Long Legs" is her best-known book, published in 1911. It is an epistolary novel and a profound and tender homage to the power of awakening love.Jerusha (Judy) Abbot is 18, and has outgrown the orphanage in which she grew up. Her carers aren't sure what to do with her; Judy's too smart to be wasted on Household School, but there's just no money to pay for college. That is, until a rich trustee reads an essay written by Judy, and it makes him laugh. He offers to send her to college to become a writer, on the condition that she writes him regular letters to keep him up to date with events.There's just one problem, Judy has no idea whom her generous benefactor actually is. Three things she knows: he is rich, he is tall and he dislikes girls.
He never answers any of her letters - but seems somehow always to be present in her life...
This extremely funny Cinderella story follows Judy through her college years, as she tries to fit in with her rich friends...and their handsome uncles (who somehow seem very familiar). The story is told through her letters to 'Dear Daddy Long Legs'.
Dzhin Vebster byla vnuchatoy plemyannitsey Marka Tvena, i eto zametno! Ee samaya izvestnaya kniga - "Dlinnonogiy dyadyushka" - byla opublikovana v 1911 godu. Eto istoriya o sile probuzhdayushcheysya lyubvi. Dzhudi Ebbot 18 let, i ona uzhe slishkom vzroslaya dlya priyuta, v kotorom vyrosla. Ee opekuny ne znayut, chto delat: devushka slishkom umna, chtoby obuchatsya v domashney shkole, no deneg na kolledzh poprostu net. Do tekh por, poka bogatyy popechitel ne prochitaet esse, napisannoe Dzhudi, i ono ego ne rassmeshit. On predlagaet otpravit ee v kolledzh, chtoby ona stala pisatelnitsey, pri uslovii, chto ona budet regulyarno pisat emu pisma i derzhat ego v kurse sobytiy. Est tolko odna problema: Dzhudi ponyatiya ne imeet, kem na samom dele yavlyaetsya ee shchedryy blagodetel. Ona znaet tri veshchi: on bogat, on vysokiy i ne lyubit devushek. On nikogda ne otvechaet ey na pisma, no nezrimym obrazom vsegda prisutstvuet v ee zhizni... Eta istoriya, rasskazannaya v pismakh "dorogomu dlinnonogomu dyudyushke", - o Zolushke, kotoraya uchitsya v kolledzhe, pytaetsya prisposobitsya k svoim bogatym druzyam... i ikh krasivym dyadyam (kotorye pochemu-to kazhutsya ochen znakomymi). Jean Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain, and it shows. "Daddy Long Legs" is her best-known book, published in 1911. It is an epistolary novel and a profound and tender homage to the power of awakening love.Jerusha (Judy) Abbot is 18, and has outgrown the orphanage in which she grew up. Her carers aren't sure what to do with her; Judy's too smart to be wasted on Household School, but there's just no money to pay for college. That is, until a rich trustee reads an essay written by Judy, and it makes him laugh. He offers to send her to college to become a writer, on the condition that she writes him regular letters to keep him up to date with events.There's just one problem, Judy has no idea whom her generous benefactor actually is. Three things she knows: he is rich, he is tall and he dislikes girls. He never answers any of her letters - but seems somehow always to be present in her life... This extremely funny Cinderella story follows Judy through her college years, as she tries to fit in with her rich friends...and their handsome uncles (who somehow seem very familiar). The story is told through her letters to 'Dear Daddy Long Legs'.
