Heidi

Informationen zum Autor Johanna Spyri Klappentext Johanna Spyri was born in a country village in Switzerland in 1827. Her father was a doctor and she had five brothers and sisters. Later she moved to the capital Zurich to go to school and she eventually settled there with her husband Bernhard,who was a lawyer. Johanna began writing in 1871 and wrote many stories which quickly became very popular. Her husband and son both died tragically in 1884, but Johanna consoled herself with charity work and writing, as well as looking after her orphaned niece. She died in her Swiss village home in 1903. Heidi is Johanna Spyri's best known and most popular novel - it has been translated from German into over fifty languages and over fifty million copies have been sold worldwide. Zusammenfassung 'I would rather be with my grandfather on the Alp than anywhere on earth!'When Heidi is sent to live in the Swiss mountains with her bad-tempered old Grandfather, everyone in the village feels sorry for her.

Product details

• Authors: Anonymous, Johanna Spyri
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.09.2012
• EAN: 9780099573746
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957374-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 188 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Children's Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Europe, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes, Interest age: from c 9 years, Grisons / Graubünden