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mohamedfarid's review against another edition
5.0
قرأت للكاتبة "جين وبستر" من قبل رواية "صاحب الظل الطويل" والتي انصح بها الكبار والصغار من جمالها ودمها الخفيف واسلوبها الجديد - وهذه الرواية تعتبر الجزء الثاني لنفس الرواية.
الرواية مكتوبة على شكل رسائل بين الشخصيات المختلفة والتي تظهر فيها الأحداث وهي تدور حول "سالي" بطلة روايتنا واشرافها على ملجأ للأيتام يضم أكثر من مئة وعشر يتيم ويتيمة وكيف طورت الملجأ وغيرته للأفضل.
رواية اجتماعية فكاهية خفيفة الظل جداً.
لا يشترط قراءة الجزء الأول ولكن الأفضل قراءته لتفهم الأسلوب وبعض الشخصيات التي تظهر أسماؤهم في هذا الجزء.
الترجمة كانت جميلة وسهلة ولم أشعر بأي مشكلة فيها.
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الرواية مكتوبة على شكل رسائل بين الشخصيات المختلفة والتي تظهر فيها الأحداث وهي تدور حول "سالي" بطلة روايتنا واشرافها على ملجأ للأيتام يضم أكثر من مئة وعشر يتيم ويتيمة وكيف طورت الملجأ وغيرته للأفضل.
رواية اجتماعية فكاهية خفيفة الظل جداً.
لا يشترط قراءة الجزء الأول ولكن الأفضل قراءته لتفهم الأسلوب وبعض الشخصيات التي تظهر أسماؤهم في هذا الجزء.
الترجمة كانت جميلة وسهلة ولم أشعر بأي مشكلة فيها.
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rebroxannape's review against another edition
5.0
“Dear Judy: Your letter is here. I have read it twice, and with amazement. Do I understand that Jervis has given you, for a Christmas present, the making over of the John Grier Home into a model institution, and that you have chosen me to disburse the money? Me - I, Sallie McBride, the head of an orphan asylum! My poor people, have you lost your senses, or have you become addicted to the use of opium, and is the raving of two fevered imaginations? I am exactly as well fitted to take care of one hundred children as to become the curator of a zoo.”
“You remember that illuminated text over the dining-room door--"The Lord Will Provide." We've painted it out, and covered the spot with rabbits. It's all very well to teach so easy a belief to normal children, who have a proper family and roof behind them; but a person whose only refuge in distress will be a park bench must learn a more militant creed than that. "The Lord has given you two hands and a brain and a big world to use them in. Use them well, and you will be provided for; use them ill, and you will want," is our motto, and that with reservations.”
This is an old favorite from my childhood. A sequel to the much more famous, Daddy-Long-Legs, it is a much better book. Sallie, the heroine, is a charmer. Open, gregarious, brave, funny, compassionate, and a modern woman. There is a sweet romance, and some real drama and tear-jerking moments.
Sallie is a society girl who takes over the orphanage that her friend Judy from DLL was raised in. She is bored with her easy meaningless life. She takes the old-fashioned behind-the-times orphanage by storm. We learn the stories of the orphans, some funny, some heart-rending. Sallie and Judy's friends and Sallie's fiancé have minor roles. Sandy, the local Scottish doctor, plays a major role and has a backstory of his own. One of the modern ideas Sallie has in her toolbelt is, unfortunately, eugenics. Today, the notion is anathema, but back then it was considered to be modern science and embraced by many intelligent professionals. try to ignore those parts.
The novel is a series of Sallie's letters to Judy and others detailing her triumphs and challenges in her new position. I love epistolary novels because of this book. Oh! and the letters are illustrated with Sallie's very cute drawings!
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missbryden's review against another edition
3.0
Not so engaging as Daddy-long-legs, and even though it's also in a letter format from only one sender, the plot is not so clear - or even so present; at least with Daddy-long-legs you could tell it would come to some kind of climax with the end of Judy's college days. And there is some odd, disturbing stuff with the mentions of eugenics. (Only a third through when writing this) Later: certain discussions of heredity make sense: we can be susceptible to problems our forebears had, like alcoholism, but the remarks about just putting some people away and having nothing more to do with them, that was disturbing.
I am enjoying Sallie's progression of character and interest in improving life for her orphans, and the involvement with the Scottish doctor.
Maybe we just whitewash what children are exposed to these days, but I can't see this being intended for children.
Plotiness improves towards the end.
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I am enjoying Sallie's progression of character and interest in improving life for her orphans, and the involvement with the Scottish doctor.
Maybe we just whitewash what children are exposed to these days, but I can't see this being intended for children.
Plotiness improves towards the end.
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flowersofquiethappiness's review against another edition
5.0
I love Sallie. Almost as much as Judy! And all those 113 orphans just add so much orneriness and laughter. SO much to enjoy in this epistolary novel!
itselvv's review against another edition
ظريف ودافئ، استمتعت كثيرًا بقراءته. أجد في أعمال ويبستر سحر مميز لا ينفك عن إثارة إعجابي.
what_ella_reads's review against another edition
4.0
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
A couple of years ago I read "Daddy-Long-Legs," and really liked it. I hoped it's spin-off "Dear Enemy," would be just as charming.
I'm glad to say (for the most part) it is!
Sallie, like Judy, is a likeable, witty, and determined protagonist. I enjoyed seeing her grow into her role as the superintendent of the John Grier Home.
Through Sallie's letters, we get to know some of the other characters, like Dr. Enemy aka Doctor MacRae. I have to admit that their arguments were some of my favorite moments.
Through Sallie's letters we also get to see what happened to Judy and Jervis after the events in Daddy-Long-Legs, which I thought was a nice touch.
My favorite thing about this book had to be all of the humorous accounts of the accidents that happen with the children at the John Grier Home. Sallie definitely had her hands full, haha!
There was one thing I really disliked about this book and it was how it pushed eugenics. Some of the comments made about disabled people were really sad and disturbing. While I completely disagree with eugenics, I understand why it wasn't censored. This book is definitely of its time and reflects what was a relatively common opinion on genes and disabilities.
I am glad I read "Dear Enemy,". I would like to read other books by this author in the future!
A couple of years ago I read "Daddy-Long-Legs," and really liked it. I hoped it's spin-off "Dear Enemy," would be just as charming.
I'm glad to say (for the most part) it is!
Sallie, like Judy, is a likeable, witty, and determined protagonist. I enjoyed seeing her grow into her role as the superintendent of the John Grier Home.
Through Sallie's letters, we get to know some of the other characters, like Dr. Enemy aka Doctor MacRae. I have to admit that their arguments were some of my favorite moments.
Through Sallie's letters we also get to see what happened to Judy and Jervis after the events in Daddy-Long-Legs, which I thought was a nice touch.
My favorite thing about this book had to be all of the humorous accounts of the accidents that happen with the children at the John Grier Home. Sallie definitely had her hands full, haha!
There was one thing I really disliked about this book and it was how it pushed eugenics. Some of the comments made about disabled people were really sad and disturbing. While I completely disagree with eugenics, I understand why it wasn't censored. This book is definitely of its time and reflects what was a relatively common opinion on genes and disabilities.
I am glad I read "Dear Enemy,". I would like to read other books by this author in the future!
bluestarfish's review against another edition
3.0
Sallie McBride is cajoled into running the orphanage Judy Pendelton (nee Abbot) grew up in and sets about bringing love and life to the orphanage and being mother to 107-113 children along the way. It's an epistolary sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs and in some ways is far more entertaining, as the trials and tribulations of a socialite getting stuck into institutional life where everything can and does go wrong are related alongside the wonderful and funny things that happen. It's the contemporaneous preoccupation with hereditary social ills and eugenics that are far less palatable.
I think I must've read this in Finnish first time round as I don't remember all the Scottish dialect peppered around.
I think I must've read this in Finnish first time round as I don't remember all the Scottish dialect peppered around.
ridgewaygirl's review against another edition
5.0
Dear Enemy is the follow up to the successful Daddy Long Legs. It follows the adventures of Judy Abbott's flighty socialite college friend, Sallie MacBride, as she works to renovate and reform the grim orphanage Judy had grown up in. Sallie doesn't look like the kind of person who would be able to be an orphanage superintendent. She is, by her own admission, silly and too much in love with having fun. But she's goaded into taking the job by the laughter of her boyfriend and now that she's installed in the superintendent's ghastly living quarters, she's going to give it her all to improve the lives of the 113 orphans in her care.
This is a childhood favorite of mine, that I reread every few years. Written as the collected letters and notes of Sallie as she gets settled and learns how very much needs to be done, it's amusing in the best possible way. What's interesting as an adult is the picture of how things like genetics were viewed a hundred years ago. There are references to the cutting edge work of that time, including the fantastic The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, which is both laughable and frightening to modern eyes, but was seriously considered in the eugenics movement of that time. So that in between the silly capers and misadventures of Sallie and her orphans and the light romance between Sallie and the dour Scottish doctor is a heap of information on how people back then thought orphanages ought to be run and the role of a child's background in his or her future chances.
This is a childhood favorite of mine, that I reread every few years. Written as the collected letters and notes of Sallie as she gets settled and learns how very much needs to be done, it's amusing in the best possible way. What's interesting as an adult is the picture of how things like genetics were viewed a hundred years ago. There are references to the cutting edge work of that time, including the fantastic The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, which is both laughable and frightening to modern eyes, but was seriously considered in the eugenics movement of that time. So that in between the silly capers and misadventures of Sallie and her orphans and the light romance between Sallie and the dour Scottish doctor is a heap of information on how people back then thought orphanages ought to be run and the role of a child's background in his or her future chances.
readsewknit's review against another edition
4.0
I had read Jean Webster's Daddy Long-Legs a few years ago, learning about it after I read Dear Mr. Knightley, a modern adaptation of it. Only recently did I learn that there was a sequel to the original work, and as it's in the public domain and a quick read, I picked it up.
It's also in an epistolary style and follows a friend from the first book who is charged with taking over the orphanage and ushering in updates and improvements. It's a pleasant, simple read, but I admit bristling at times as some of the language and beliefs haven't aged well (some of it might have been meant for humorous effect, but the talk of "idiots" that she places elsewhere and her flippant comment about the child of a lyncing victim sobered me up).
It's also in an epistolary style and follows a friend from the first book who is charged with taking over the orphanage and ushering in updates and improvements. It's a pleasant, simple read, but I admit bristling at times as some of the language and beliefs haven't aged well (some of it might have been meant for humorous effect, but the talk of "idiots" that she places elsewhere and her flippant comment about the child of a lyncing victim sobered me up).