
Johanna Spyri’s classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Heidi Gains in Some Respects and Loses in Others

The Master of the House Hears of Strange Doings Miss Rottenmeier Has an Uncomfortable Day Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her paternal grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. #46409 (Illustrations in B & W and color) Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. Her first story, 'A Leaf on Vrony's Grave', which deals with a woman's life of domestic violence, was published in 1873 the following years further stories for both adults and children appeared, among them the novel Heidi, which she. Whilst living in the city of Zrich she began to write about life in the country. Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: In 1852, Johanna Heusser married a lawyer named Bernhard Spyri. The old man stood looking down on the sleeping child until the moon again disappeared behind the clouds and he could see no more, then he went back to bed.Stork, Elisabeth P. Escritora suiza nacida en Hirzel, un pueblo en la montaa cerca de Zrich. She lay under the heavy coverlid, her cheeks rosy with sleep, her head peacefully resting on her little round arm, and with a happy expression on her baby face as if dreaming of something pleasant. Compra Heidi de Johanna Spyri en Bajalibros, tu tienda de libros online. Just now the moonlight was falling through the round window straight on to Heidi's bed. Outside the moon was struggling with the dark, fast-driving clouds, which at one moment left it clear and shining, and the next swept over it, and all again was dark.

He mounted the ladder and went and stood by the child's bed. "The child will be frightened," he murmured half aloud. In the middle of the night the old man got up. It came howling and wailing down the chimney like voices of those in pain, and it raged with such fury among the old fir trees that here and there a branch was snapped and fell. The wind grew so tempestuous during the night, and blew in such gusts against the walls, that the hut trembled and the old beams groaned and creaked. She began writing stories later in life, publishing her most famous novel, Heidi, in 1881. Born in rural Switzerland to a doctor and a poet, she later lived in Zurich with her husband and son. “Not long after, and while it was still twilight, the grandfather also went to bed, for he was up every morning at sunrise, and the sun came climbing up over the mountains at a very early hour during these summer months. JOHANNA SPYRI (1827-1901) was a Swiss author.
