by Johanna Spyri · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621914
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«Heidi» is Johanna Spyri's children's novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Heidi lives happily in the Alps with her grandfather, the Alm-Uncle. When she is taken to Frankfurt to keep company with Clara, a sickly girl, Heidi feels miserable and misses the mountains. Her kindness cheers Clara, but Heidi still dreams of returning to the Alps; it is a story about friendship, nature and hope.
The work was originally published in 1880 and belongs to the «Heidi» series. This edition includes a translation by Eileen Hall and illustrations by Cecil Leslie.
Children's and young adult audience, with a reading age of 4 to 12 years.
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.
