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Dear Enemy

By: Jean Webster
Narrated by: Anne Hancock
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This delightful sequel to Webster's Daddy Long-Legs centers on socialite Sallie McBride, who reluctantly agrees to become director of an orphan asylum. The asylum's benefactors, her friends Judy and Jervis Pendleton, insist she is just the person to institute the sweeping reforms the institution needs. The exuberant Sallie soon begins ruffling feathers of the staff, filling the children's lives with hope and love, and locking horns with the new Scotch doctor, the Dear Enemy of the title.

Public Domain (P)2014 Ann Hancock Classics Linguistics Social Sciences
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I love daddy long legs And I do like this book but I cringe during the birds which go on about feeble minded people should be got rid of and not allowed to breed and wanting to dose one of the children with arsenic. Too much influence of eugenics gives the books some problems. There is a sweet story behind it but.....

Hasn’t aged as well as daddy long legs

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I found this very enjoyable..it is a cleverly written story, and cute humour sprinkled throughout.

cute!

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Simultaneously frivolously AND philosophical. I read this as a sequel to Daddy Long Legs, and had low expectations. But was pleasantly surprised. Does raise thoughts over nature over nuture, and the meaning of a meaningful life, (and sometimes in a manner more consistent with thoughts of that era, and smetimes in a progressive manner) but not in a manner which dominates the story.

Pleasantly surprised

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