Heidi

Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago.
It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged that Heidi should return to the mountains. Together she and her friend Peter, the goat-herd, achieve wondrous changes in the community in which they live.

Heidi is a delightful story of life in the Alps, one of many tales written for children by the Swiss authoress, Johanna Spyri, who died at her home in Zurich in i89i..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 tide 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 was for many years a favourite book of younger readers in Germany and America, and later became equally popular in England. 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 from the misunderstanding and sometimes the mistaken kindness that frequently hinder the happiness and natural development of their lives and characters. The authoress,as we sense in reading her tales, lived among the scenes and people she describes, and the setting amid which she places her small actors has the charm of the mountain scenery with which she was so familiar.

1 Up the Mountain to Aim-Uncle
2 At Home with Grandfather
3 Out with the Goats
4 The Visit to Grandmother
5 Two Visits and What Came of Them
6 A New Chapter about New Things
7 Frdulein Rottenmeier Spends an Uncomfortable Day
8 There is a Great Commotion in the Large House
9 Herr Sesemann Hears of Things which are New to Him
10 Another Grandmother
11 Heidi Gains in One Way and Loses in Another
12 A Ghost in the House
13 A Summer Evening on the Mountain
14 Sunday Bells
15 Preparations for a Journey
16 A Visitor
17 A Compensation
18 Winter in Dorfli
19 The Winter Continues
20 News from Distant Friends
21 How Life Went On at Grandfather's
22 Something Unexpected Happens
23 'Goodbye Till We Meet Again'