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HEIDI
by JOHANNA SPYRI

CONTENTS
I Up the Mountain to Alm-Uncle II At Home with Grandfather III Out
with the Goats IV The Visit to Grandmother V Two Visits and What
Came of Them VI A New Chapter about New Things VII Fraulein
Rottenmeier Spends an Uncomfortable Day VIII There is Great
Commotion in the Large House IX Herr Sesemann Hears of Things
that are New to Him X Another Grandmother XI Heidi Gains in One
Way and Loses in Another XII A Ghost in the House XIII A Summer
Evening on the Mountain XIV Sunday Bells XV Preparations for a
Journey XVI A Visitor XVII A Compensation XVIII Winter in Dorfli
XIX The Winter Continues XX News from Distant Friends XXI How
Life went on at Grandfather's XXII Something Unexpected Happens
XXIII "Good-bye Till We Meet Again"

INTRODUCTION
"Heidi" is a delightful story for children of life in the Alps, one of many
tales written by the Swiss authoress, Johanna Spyri, who died in her
home at Zurich in 1891. She had been well known to the younger
readers of her own country since 1880, when she published her story,
Heimathlos, which ran into three or more editions, and which, like her
other books, as she states on the title page, was written for those who
love children, as well as for the youngsters themselves. Her own

sympathy with the instincts and longings of the child's heart is shown in
her picture of Heidi. The record of the early life of this Swiss child
amid the beauties of her passionately loved mountain-home and during
her exile in the great town has been for many years a favorite book of
younger readers in Germany and America.
Madame Spyri, like Hans Andersen, had by temperament a peculiar
skill in writing the simple histories of an innocent world. In all her
stories she shows an underlying desire to preserve children alike from
misunderstanding and the mistaken kindness that frequently hinder the
happiness and natural development of their lives and characters. The
authoress, as we feel in reading