Heidi

Johanna Spyri

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9783749432998
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction
• Index: Literature

"Heidi" is a delightful story for children of life in the Alps, one of many tales written by the Swiss authoress, Johanna Spyri, who died in her home at Zurich in 1891. She had been well known to the younger readers of her own country since 1880, when she published her story, Heimathlos, which ran into three or more editions, and which, like her other books, as she states on the title page, was written for those who love children, as well as for the youngsters themselves. Her own sympathy with the instincts and longings of the child's heart is shown in her picture of Heidi. The record of the early life of this Swiss child amid the beauties of her passionately loved mountain-home and during her exile in the great town has been for many years a favorite book of younger readers in Germany and America.Madame Spyri, like Hans Andersen, had by temperament a peculiar skill in writing the simple histories of an innocent world. In all her stories she shows an underlying desire to preserve children alike from misunderstanding and the mistaken kindness that frequently hinder the happiness and natural development of their lives and characters. The authoress, as we feel in reading her tales, lived among the scenes and people she describes, and the setting of her stories has the charm of the mountain scenery amid which she places her small actors.

Table of contents

• Heidi
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER I. UP THE MOUNTAIN TO ALM-UNCLE
• CHAPTER II. AT HOME WITH GRANDFATHER
• CHAPTER III. OUT WITH THE GOATS
• CHAPTER IV. THE VISIT TO GRANDMOTHER
• CHAPTER V. TWO VISITS AND WHAT CAME OF THEM
• CHAPTER VI. A NEW CHAPTER ABOUT NEW THINGS
• CHAPTER VII. FRAULEIN ROTTENMEIER SPENDS AN UNCOMFORTABLE DAY
• CHAPTER VIII. THERE IS GREAT COMMOTION IN THE LARGE HOUSE
• CHAPTER IX. HERR SESEMANN HEARS OF THINGS WHICH ARE NEW TO HIM
• CHAPTER X. ANOTHER GRANDMOTHER
• CHAPTER XI. HEIDI GAINS IN ONE WAY AND LOSES IN ANOTHER
• CHAPTER XII. A GHOST IN THE HOUSE
• CHAPTER XIII. A SUMMER EVENING ON THE MOUNTAIN
• CHAPTER XIV. SUNDAY BELLS
• CHAPTER XV. PREPARATIONS FOR A JOURNEY
• CHAPTER XVI. A VISITOR
• CHAPTER XVII. A COMPENSATION
• CHAPTER XVIII. WINTER IN DORFLI
• CHAPTER XIX. THE WINTER CONTINUES
• CHAPTER XX. NEWS FROM DISTANT FRIENDS
• CHAPTER XXI. HOW LIFE WENT ON AT GRANDFATHER'S
• CHAPTER XXII. SOMETHING UNEXPECTED HAPPENS
• CHAPTER XXIII. "GOOD-BYE TILL WE MEET AGAIN"
• Copyright