Heidi

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

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Authors: Johanna Spyri In Year : 1880

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Heidi

Chapter 1 – Up the Mountain to Alm-Uncle
Chapter 2 – At Home with Grandfather
Chapter 3 – Out With The Goats
Chapter 4 – The Visit to Grandmother
Chapter 5 – Two Visits and What Came of Them
Chapter 6 – A New Chapter About New Things
Chapter 7 – Fraulein Rottenmeier Spends an Uncomfortable Day
Chapter 8 – There is Great Commotion in the Large House
Chapter 9 – Herr Sesemann Hears of Things Which are New to Him
Chapter 10 – Another Grandmother
Chapter 11 – Heidi Gains in One Way and Loses in Another
Chapter 12 – A Ghost in the House
Chapter 13 – A Summer Evening on the Mountain
Chapter 14 – Sunday Bells
Chapter 15 – Preparations for a Journey
Chapter 16 – A Visitor
Chapter 17 – A Compensation
Chapter 18 – Winter in Dorfli
Chapter 19 – The Winter Continues
Chapter 20 – News from Distant Friends
Chapter 21 – How Life Went on at Grandfather’s
Chapter 22 – Something Unexpected Happens
Chapter 23 – Goodbye Til We Meet Again

Hear Heidi if you’ve ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding in flowered fields with goats at your heels and sky utterly surrounding you.

We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt who has raised the orphan but must leave now for a position in Frankfurt. In a mountain cottage overlooking the valley is Heidi’s grandfather, and there with him the girl’s sweet, free nature expands with the vista. The author’s voice is straightforward, and so is our reader’s, with the child’s wonder, devotion, and sometimes humorous good intentions. When Heidi is taken from the mountains and nearly doesn’t make it back again, the most humorous as well as most heart-wringing scenes occur. All she learns during her absence from the mountain she brings back as seeds that will grow to benefit everyone around her. (Summary by Anita)