Jean Webster

eBook, ePUB

Much Ado About Peter (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

We follow Peter''s life while working as a groom for the wealthy Carter family. He has to deal with rowdy young children of his upper class employers, who tend to both look down and up to Peter. There''s plenty of slapstick humor with pranks and tricks being played by the children. Later, Peter starts making odd and questionable decisions, but all ends up well. (Goodreads)

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• Größe: 0.72MB
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Autor

Alice Jane Chandler Webster (July 24, 1876-June 11, 1916), an American author whose works include Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy, used the pen name, Jean Webster. Her most well-known works include young female protagonists who are engaging and likable and who mature intellectually, ethically, and socially. Her books also contain just the right amount of humor, snappy dialogue, and subtly cutting social criticism to appeal to modern readers. The birthplace of Alice Jane Chandler Webster is Fredonia, New York. She was the oldest child born to Charles Luther Webster and Annie Moffet Webster. With her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother all sharing a home, she spent her early years in a strongly matriarchal and activist environment. Her great-grandmother advocated for temperance, and her grandmother for women's suffrage and racial equality. Mark Twain's mother was his niece, and Alice's father was the business manager of the 1884-founded Charles L. Webster & Company, which later published many of Mark Twain's works. The company started out well, and when Alice was five, the family moved to a sizable brownstone in New York, along with a vacation home on Long Island. However, the publishing house encountered problems, and things with Mark Twain got worse and worse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783965375161
• Artikelnr.: 58661591