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Heidi is the story of a charming, little orphan who is left under the care of her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps. She soon wins her grandfather’s heart, and makes friends with Peter and his goats. One day, Heidi’s aunt takes her away to Frankfurt to live with a rich family and their invalid daughter, Clara. Read the story to know what happens next.

Ilustrated hardcover children's classic. Black & white illustrations throughout by Leonard Weisgard. Decorative blue borders flank the page numbers in right & left margins. Text is complete and unabridged. A part of the Rainbow Classics series by Collins World. (c) 1946 World Publishing Company, (c) 1974 Wm. Collins + World Publishing Co. (Collins World). Also published as a library edition under ISBN 0-529-04780-2.

Excerpt from HeidiThe present translation has been carefully made with the idea of preserving as far as possible the homely simplicity and vivacity of the original, the charm of its absolute sincerity and wholesome humor. It cannot fail to appeal to every reader, and every reader will be sure to recommend it to an increasing circle of friends. It is thus that great books become firmly established in the affections of a people.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Heidi (German: [ˈhaɪdi]) is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: her years of wandering and learning[1] (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi : How she used what she learned[2] (German: Heidi kann brauchen, was sie gelernt hat).[3] It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children".

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from the foreward - "Was it prophetic, perhaps, that the last chapter of Heidi should have been entitled "Parting to Meet Again"? Now, years afterwards, when the first enraptured readers of the first book have grandchildren of their own, the curtain is rolled back and we DO meet again the little girl we left so long ago in the hut on the mountainside together with all her friends, and remain close to them while Heidi grows to lovely womanhood fulfilling all the sweet promises of her early years."