by Johanna Spyri · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853261251
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«Heidi» is the children's novel by Johanna Spyri, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Heidi, an orphan girl, lives in the Swiss Alps with her grandfather, a gruff but kind-hearted man, and her friend Peter, the goatherd. When she is sent to the city to keep company with Clara, a sick girl, she befriends her, but she never stops longing for the mountain. Her return to the Alps restores joy to her grandfather and changes the lives of those around her.
This edition, complete and unabridged, brings together the two parts of the Heidi series, originally published in 1880.
Recommended for readers aged 7 to 9, and also for adults who want to rediscover this children's classic.
Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.
