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Heidi (Young Readers' Classics) (Abridged)
by Johanna Spyri; Barbara Greenwood
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1550135503
- ISBN 13
- 9781550135503
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About This Item
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition Thus / full number line. Fine book in pictorial covers / no jacket. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 94 pages. Profusely illustrated glossy hardcover. Abridged version for younger readers. An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps.
Synopsis
Heidi is a classic children's book first published in 1881 in Germany by Swiss author Johanna Spyri in two parts: Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning , and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned. Subtitled: "Geschichten für Kinder wie auch für Solche, Welche Kinder lieb haben von Johanna Spyri” Stories for children as well as those that love children by Johanna Spyri). It is one of the best-selling books ever written, and one of the best-known pieces of Swiss literature. Heidi tells the story of the namesake orphan brought to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Her cheery attitude wins the heart of her grumpy grandfather, the friendship of a goatherd Peter and his family, and the friendship of Clara, an city-dwelling invalid who later regains her mobility after visiting Heidi in the mountains. Two sequels, Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Children, were not written by Spyri, but by her English translator, Charles Tritten.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000003676
- Title
- Heidi (Young Readers' Classics) (Abridged)
- Author
- Johanna Spyri; Barbara Greenwood
- Illustrator
- Richard Row
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 1550135503
- ISBN 13
- 9781550135503
- Publisher
- Key Porter Books
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 94
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- fiction, classic, juvenile, children, kids, grandfathers, orphans, mountain life, illustrated, Alps, Swiss, Switzerland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children; Fiction; Europe; Domestic and Family Fiction; Illustrated Books;
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