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- Herausgeber: Diamond Book Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
The story of an irrepressible orphan girl in the Swiss Alps, written in 1881, has long been one of the most beloved and best-selling children’s classics in the world. Heidi’s story begins when she is orphaned at the age of five and sent to live with her reclusive, embittered grandfather on a mountainside above a Swiss village. Heidi’s grandfather has been estranged from the villagers for years and he resents the child’s arrival, but she wins his affection with her enthusiasm and cheer. Her rural idyll is cruelly interrupted, however, when her aunt sends her to the city to be a hired companion to a wealthy girl in a wheelchair. Clara is delighted by her new friend, but the family’s strict housekeeper tries to repress Heidi’s high spirits and the girl begins to waste away, pining for her mountain home. The resolution of Heidi’s dilemma transforms the lives of everyone around her and has entranced readers for generations with its vision of the joys of country life and the power of love and friendship.
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Table of contents
CHAPTER I. UP THE MOUNTAIN TO ALM-UNCLE
By
Johanna Spyri
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. UP THE MOUNTAIN TO ALM-UNCLE
CHAPTER II. AT HOME WITH GRANDFATHER
CHAPTER III. OUT WITH THE GOATS
CHAPTER IV. THE VISIT TO GRANDMOTHER
CHAPTER V. TWO VISITS AND WHAT CAME OF THEM
CHAPTER VI. A NEW CHAPTER ABOUT NEW THINGS
CHAPTER VII. FRAULEIN ROTTENMEIER SPENDS AN UNCOMFORTABLE DAY
CHAPTER VIII. THERE IS GREAT COMMOTION IN THE LARGE HOUSE
CHAPTER IX. HERR SESEMANN HEARS OF THINGS THAT ARE NEW TO HIM
CHAPTER X. ANOTHER GRANDMOTHER
CHAPTER XI. HEIDI GAINS IN ONE WAY AND LOSES IN ANOTHER
CHAPTER XII. A GHOST IN THE HOUSE
CHAPTER XIII. A SUMMER EVENING ON THE MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XIV. SUNDAY BELLS
CHAPTER XV. PREPARATIONS FOR A JOURNEY
CHAPTER XVI. A VISITOR
CHAPTER XVII. A COMPENSATION
CHAPTER XVIII. WINTER IN DORFLI
CHAPTER XIX. THE WINTER CONTINUES
CHAPTER XX. NEWS FROM DISTANT FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXI. HOW LIFE WENT ON AT GRANDFATHER'S
CHAPTER XXII. SOMETHING UNEXPECTED HAPPENS
CHAPTER XXIII. "GOOD-BYE TILL WE MEET AGAIN"
CHAPTER I. UP THE MOUNTAIN TO ALM-UNCLE
From the old and pleasantly situated village of Mayenfeld, a footpath winds through green and shady meadows to the foot of the mountains, which on this side look down from their stern and lofty heights upon the valley below. The land grows gradually wilder as the path ascends, and the climber has not gone far before he begins to inhale the fragrance of the short grass and sturdy mountain-plants, for the way is steep and leads directly up to the summits above.
On a clear sunny morning in June two figures might be seen climbing the narrow mountain path; one, a tall strong-looking girl, the other a child whom she was leading by the hand, and whose little checks were so aglow with heat that the crimson color could be seen even through the dark, sunburnt skin. And this was hardly to be wondered at, for in spite of the hot June sun the child was clothed as if to keep off the bitterest frost. She did not look more than five years old, if as much, but what her natural figure was like, it would have been hard to say, for she had apparently two, if not three dresses, one above the other, and over these a thick red woollen shawl wound round about her, so that the little body presented a shapeless appearance, as, with its small feet shod in thick, nailed mountain-shoes, it slowly and laboriously plodded its way up in the heat. The two must have left the valley a good hour's walk behind them, when they came to the hamlet known as Dorfli, which is situated half-way up the mountain. Here the wayfarers met with greetings from all sides, some calling to them from windows, some from open doors, others from outside, for the elder girl was now in her old home. She did not, however, pause in her walk to respond to her friends' welcoming cries and questions, but passed on without stopping for a moment until she reached the last of the scattered houses of the hamlet. Here a voice called to her from the door: "Wait a moment, Dete; if you are going up higher, I will come with you."
The girl thus addressed stood still, and the child immediately let go her hand and seated herself on the ground.
"Are you tired, Heidi?" asked her companion.
"No, I am hot," answered the child.
"We shall soon get to the top now. You must walk bravely on a little longer, and take good long steps, and in another hour we shall be there," said Dete in an encouraging voice.
