Heidi

By Spyri, Johanna

Book Id: WPLBN0000119453
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.8 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Heidi
Author:	Spyri, Johanna
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


Citation APA MLA Chicago Spyri, J. (n.d.). Heidi. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
INTRODUCTION: 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...

Table of Contents
· 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