Jean Webster

When Patty Went to College is Jean Webster's first novel, published in 1903. It is a humorous look at life in an all-girls college at the turn of the 20th century. Patty Wyatt, the protagonist of this story is a bright, fun loving, imperturbable girl who does not like to conform. The book describes her many escapades on campus during her senior year at college. Patty enjoys life on campus and uses her energies in playing pranks and for the entertainment...

Patty and her two best friends Conny and Priscilla are appalled when they find out they've been separated as roommates for their senior year at Saint Ursula's boarding school. Patty will not let it stand and the girls come up with schemes to go back to rooming with one another. The book follows Conny, Priscilla, Patty and their schoolmates (but mostly Patty) through their senior year. It's a series of vignettes about friendship, mischief and growing...

Judy Abbot, que ha vivido toda su vida en un orfanato, tiene un misterioso benefactor que está dispuesto a pagarle los estudios. A cambio, ella solo tiene que enviarle una carta al mes, no hacer preguntas, y nunca esperar respuestas. Pero sus cartas están muy lejos de ser las de una modosa huerfanita. Judy mezcla las anécdotas universitarias con sus ideas, dibujos y teorías sobre quién será su benefactor, al que llama Papá Piernaslargas. Una...

Excerpt: "If you leave the city by the Porta Maggiore and take the Via Prænestina, which leads east into the Sabine hills, at some thirty-six kilometers' distance from Rome you will pass on your left a grey-walled village climbing up the hillside. This is Palestrina, the old Roman Præneste; and a short distance beyond-also on the left-you will find branching off from the straight Roman highway a steep mountain road, which, if you stick to it long...

Jerry is the humorous story of a young man's attempt to win his lady. Jerry is waiting for his friends at a hotel in Italy, and is bored and lonely. When he hears that a beautiful American lady, Constance Wilder, is staying nearby, he tries to visit her. After an awkward first meeting, he tries to catch her attention by pretending to be a peasant tour guide. She recognises him for what he is, but pretends not to, and a lively charade is carried on...

Jerry (Junior) is a wealthy upper-class American, a handsome young man whiling away several days in an Italian village, waiting for his sister and aunt to arrive. He's getting very bored, so when the hotel waiter tells him about a lovely young American woman staying in a nearby villa, he decides to drop by (without an invitation or introduction, gasp!) and meet her. Unfortunately, Jerry and Constance get off on the wrong foot, and she dismisses him...