Daddy-Long-Legs (novel)

Daddy Langbein ( Original title: Daddy- Long-Legs ) is a 1912 epistolary novel, published in the American writer Jean Webster.

Action

Heroine of the novel is the orphan Jerusha Abbott, who has lived up to the age of eighteen in the John Grier home and is now being sent from one of the rich supervisory boards of the institution because of their literary talent to college. The man wants to remain anonymous, but expects something in return of Jerusha: For that they must go to college, they should write a letter every month on their progress without them would ever answered. With the entry into college begins for Jerusha a journey into the unknown world outside her completely of the orphanage. Everything she experienced, she describes the supervisory board, which she affectionately called Daddy Longlegs, because it only knows about the man his shadow, which made his legs look disproportionately long. During her life at college she met Jervis Pendleton, know the uncle of a fellow student, whom she accidentally met in her life, as it appears again and again. Over time, they come closer to each other. When they can get to know at the end of their college time Daddy Langbein, it turns out that Jervis Daddy Langbein is.

Effect

The motifs of the book show Jean Webster's interest in social issues and the women's movement. The book was fashioned to their famous and later became a stage play.

The book is dedicated to his readers. Today it is often associated with youth or even children's literature. At the time of its appearance it was, however, sample a larger number of girls or students novels whose protagonists were occupied on the threshold of adult life with topics such as study, work and marriage. These books were a contemporary view of the pre- adolescence. Other authors of the genre were Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott and later Mary Stoltz.

Expenditure ( selection)

• Daddy- Long-Legs. New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap 1912 (English )
• Daddy- Long-Legs. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun. In 1995. ISBN 3-15-009205-1 (English )
• Daddy Longlegs. Übers: Margret Boveri. Berlin: Minerva Publishing House, 1947
• Daddy Longlegs. ( Tb ). Frankfurt: Fischer, 1995, ISBN 3-596-22410-1.

Films

In the years 1919, 1931, and 1955, the story was filmed, the film Daddy Longlegs 1955 with Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in the lead roles.

Under the title Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan (私のあしながおじさん) is a comprehensive 40 episodes animated series was in 1990 in Japanese television erstausgestrahlt on the basis of the novel. This anime was created in animation studio Nippon Animation as part of the World Masterpiece Theater series. As The secret of Daddy Longlegs he was also broadcast in the German television on RTL 2.

Continuation

Under the title Dear Enemy ( Dear Enemy ) tied Webster on Daddy Longlegs. In Dear Enemy Jerusha transmits her college friend Sallie McBride, the line of the John Grier Home. Dear enemy is also an epistolary novel, in contrast to Daddy Longlegs which letters go out not only to a person. The book contains both the letters Sallies to Jerusha, as well as the letters to the physician of the institution, Dr. Robin McRae, and to Sallie's fiancé, the politician Gordon Hallock.

• Literary work
• Literature ( English )
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Epistolary novel
• Literature (United States)