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Heidi

4.01 (187,538 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Johanna Spyri

Translated by: Helen B. Dole

Illustrated by: William Sharp

When Heidi, a five-year-old orphan, is dumped on her reclusive grandfather who lives on a remote mountainside above a Swiss village, he is none too pleased by her arrival. But Heidi quickly wins him over with her cheerful disposition and kindness, and thoroughly enjoys her new life, spending the summer days roaming the Alpine pastures with young Peter the goatherd. Three years later, this rural idyll is cruelly interrupted when her aunt fetches Heidi away to the city as a hired companion for Clara, a rich girl who is disabled. Clara adores her new friend, but the family's strict housekeeper tries to repress Heidi's high spirits and she becomes ill, pining for her mountain home. The resolution of Heidi's dilemma transforms the lives of everyone around her and has entranced readers for generations with its vision of the joys of country life and the power of love and friendship. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 686g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Mar 2019
  • Publisher: Everyman
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 9-11
  • ISBN13: 9781841599502

About Johanna Spyri

Johanna Spyri (Author) Johanna Spyri (18271901) was born Johanna Heusser at Hirzel a pretty Swiss village about seven miles from Zurich the daughter of a doctor and one of a large family of children. She had a happy childhood and married in 1852 a young lawyer friend of her brother's Bernhard Spyri moving to Zurich. The couple had one son also called Bernhard who never enjoyed good health and his mother began making up stories to tell him. She first published one of these in 1870 to raise money for soldiers wounded in the Franco-Prussian War. Heidi was published in 1880 inspired by Johanna's love for the Alpine countryside of her youth and was a great success from the start. In later life after the death of her husband and son Johanna took a young niece to live with her and devoted herself to writing and charity work. She published more than fifty books for adults and children but none so famous as Heidi.

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