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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Learners with basic Dutch who want to use a literary work for extensive reading practice
- Readers in literary studies researching editions and translations of Daddy-Long-Legs
- Researchers who need a public-domain electronic text for textual analysis or corpus work
Not a good fit for
- General readers unfamiliar with Dutch who only want a Chinese translation
- Collectors who expect an illustrated or annotated physical edition
- Young children reading independently, since there is no Chinese support or introduction
Reading tips
- Read one chapter first to get a feel for the style, then compare it paragraph by paragraph with the English original to see how the translation handles it.
- Sort unfamiliar words by character, scene, and letter format for easier review.
- Use the e-book annotation function to mark forms of address and tone particles characteristic of the epistolary style.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Jean Webster (1876–1916) was an American author. Public information about her education, awards and specific life experiences is limited; what can be confirmed is chiefly her literary output. Sixteen of her works are held in this collection, including Daddy-Long-Legs, Dear Enemy, Jerry, and Setä Pitkäsääri, Vadertje Langbeen, Het John Grier Home, Much Ado About Peter and Paras vihollinen, several of which are different-language versions of the same titles. Her writing often uses the epistolary form and a light, humorous tone, focusing on orphanages, the growth of young women and education, with lively dialogue and gentle social concern. Daddy-Long-Legs is her most widely circulated work and the one for which later readers remember her.
