Daddy-Long-Legs

by Jean Webster · 1912

An orphan sent to college writes witty letters to the anonymous benefactor she has never met, in a beloved epistolary novel.

Books mentioned in Daddy-Long-Legs (24)

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: “Tennyson's poems and Vanity Fair and Kipling's Plain Tales and--don't laugh--Little Women”
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray: “Tennyson's poems and Vanity Fair and Kipling's Plain Tales”
• Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: “Kipling's Plain Tales”
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “have you ever read Hamlet?”
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: “I sat up half of last night reading Jane Eyre.”
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: “Wuthering Heights.”
• Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Also Emerson's Essays”
• The Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Gibson Lockhart: “Lockhart's Life of Scott”
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “the first volume of Gibbon's Roman Empire”
• The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini: “half of Benvenuto Cellini's Life--wasn't he entertaining?”
• Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth: “We are reading Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey”
• As You Like It by William Shakespeare: “chosen for the spring dramatics--As You Like It out of doors”
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James: “settling down... to The Portrait of a Lady”
• Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach in the future will be washed by pink waves”
• Locksley Hall by Alfred Tennyson: “that charming little thing of Tennyson's called Locksley Hall”
• Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley by Leonard Huxley: “engaged at odd moments with the Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley”
• The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff by Marie Bashkirtseff: “We're reading Marie Bashkirtseff's journal.”
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: “French: 24 pages of the Three Musketeers”
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson: “Isn't Treasure Island fun?”
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “I never read Mother Goose or David Copperfield or Ivanhoe...”
• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “David Copperfield or Ivanhoe or Cinderella...”
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “Blue Beard or Robinson Crusoe or Jane Eyre”
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: “Jane Eyre or Alice in Wonderland”
• Mother Goose: “I never read Mother Goose or David Copperfield...”