Jerry Junior illustrated

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Jerry Junior illustrated Jean Webster - Jerry is a wealthy upper-class American who gets stuck in a small Italian village waiting for his company to arrive. He's getting very bored, so when the hotel waiter tells him about a lovely young American woman named Constance staying in a nearby villa, he decides to drop by unannounced and meet her. Jerry's attitude puts Constance off and she dismisses him without a whole lot of thought. But Jerry sees this as a challenge and goes through a series of charming attempts trying to conquer Constance's heart.

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Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her most well-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.

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