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When and Where I read this book: I have read this book more than six times up to now. I am still enjoying reading it but this time in English. The first time I came to know it, I was a freshman in high school. The book was given to me by my cousin and the title was so mysterious, Daddy Long Legs, written by Jean Webster. The moment I received the book, I started reading it in my rectangular bedroom on the top floor of a high-rise apartment in Iran.

Summary: Jerusha Abbot, which the name is chosen off a stone grave and a phone book, is an orphan girl. She is intelligent and has finished her education with high degree. But, she does not have enough money to go to university. One day, she is informed that a benefactor agreed to support her financially. And, she is supposed to write letters to him in return, reporting her progress. But, there is one stricted rule; she won’t receive any response from the benefactor and won’t see him at all.

Some excerpts from the book:

Dear daddy long legs,

 
I had never seen a picture of the 'Mona
Lisa' and (it's true but you won't believe it) I had never heard of
Sherlock Holmes. Now, I know all of these things and a lot of others besides, but you
can see how much I need to catch up. And oh, but it's fun! I look
forward all day to evening, and then I put an 'engaged' on the door and
get into my nice red bath robe and furry slippers and pile all the
cushions behind me on the couch, and light the brass student lamp at my
elbow, and read and read and read one book isn't enough. I have four
going at once. Just now, they're Tennyson's poems and Vanity Fair and
Kipling's Plain Tales and--don't laugh--Little Women. I find that I am
the only girl in college who wasn't brought up on Little Women. I
haven't told anybody though (that WOULD stamp me as queer). I just
quietly went and bought it with $1.12 of my last month's allowance; and
the next time somebody mentions pickled limes, I'll know what she is
talking about!

(Ten o'clock bell. This is a very interrupted letter.)

Jean Webster recieved literature Noble prize for this book. However, at that time, many people critisized the book since her story initiated from suffarage movement-the movement that wanted equal rights for women. Apart from these biased opinions, what I love about the book is that "Jerusha or Judy" is passionate about life enjoying, touching, smelling, listening, looking every tiny insignificant things in life. She describes her first experience of having a private bedroom in a way that readers feel it is the most vital and prominent possesion. Sometimes the importance of insignificant things is forgotten. Moreover, Judy is free from all social limitations since she was raised in asylum. This makes her, free-spirited, alive and dynamic. That is why everyone who reads the story falls in love with it immediately.  

You can read the book online here if intrested.