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Heidi is a delightful story of life in the Alps written by the Swiss authoress Johanna Spyri. 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 favourite book of younger readers.

Heidi is a delightful story of life in the Alps written by the Swiss authoress Johanna Spyri. 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 favourite book of younger readers.

Heidi is a delightful story of life in the Alps written by the Swiss authoress Johanna Spyri. 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 favourite book of younger readers.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

When Heidi is five years old, her aunt Dete brings her to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Her grandfather has lived by himself, angry at everyone, but he becomes fond of Heidi. Heidi becomes friends with Peter, the goatherd, and goes with him up the mountains everyday as he tends to the goats. She also becomes friends with Peter's blind grandmother. Heidi grows to love living in the mountains. A few years later, Dete comes back. She wants to take Heidi to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara, a little girl who's crippled. Grandfather gets angry and tells Dete he never wants to see her again, and storms out. Clara and Grandmama make a visit to the mountains. They decide to let Clara stay there for awhile to visit with Heidi and benefit from the mountain air. But, Peter is jealous of the attention Clara gets. Through his jealousy, he allows a miracle to happen.