Johanna Spyri
Heidi: Heidi's Apprenticeship, Travels, And What She Has Learned
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform July 19, 2010)
Heidi is by far the most popular work of Swiss literature and has been translated from German into 50 languages, been filmed more than a dozen times, and more than 50 million copies of Heidi books have been sold world-wide. The orphan child Heidi is living with her grandfather in a cottage high up in the Swiss Alps, good-hearted old man who mistrusts anybody and wants to keep the child from all evils of the world. Grandfather refuses to send Heidi to school; instead she goes to the pastures, together with Peter, a shepherd boy looking after the goats. This alpine idyll finds a sudden end when Heidi is brought to Frankfurt (Germany) where she shall stay with Clara, the paralyzed daughter of a rich family, and learn something. She is very lonesome and gets depressed by the gray anonymous city. Heidi becomes ill of homesickness, she starts to walk in her sleep. Stresemann and the sympathetic doctor of the family decide to stay up till midnight and find out about the ghosts. When the doctor sees Heidi walking around in her sleep, he finds the right diagnosis and sends her back to the alps. Next summer, Clara visits Heidi there. They go to the pastures and Heidi shows Clara all the beauty of her world. Peter gets terribly jealous, and in a moment when he feels unobserved, he pushes the empty wheelchair down to the valley so it gets smashed. Clara wants to see the flowers and is forced to walk; and her desire is strong enough that she overcomes her handicap. Healings at body, spirit and soul in that healthy Alpine world.
- ISBN
- 1453716157 / 9781453716151
- Pages
- 250
- Weight
- 15.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.6 in.
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