Heidi

Resumen del libro

Written as a book 'for children and those who love children', Johanna Spyriâ s affectionate account of Swiss mountain life is one of the bestselling books ever written, and a joyous portrait of the innocence of childhood. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

This edition of Heidi is translated by Marian Edwardes and features charming line-drawn illustrations, and an afterword by editor Marcus Clapham. At the age of six, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi â fascinated by his long beard and bushy grey eyebrows â takes to him immediately and soon earns his love in return.

She adores her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up among the goats and birds, but one terrible day Heidi is collected by her aunt and forced to live with a new family in town. Heartbroken by the loss of her Alpine life, she must do everything she can to return to her grandfather.

Biografía del autor

Escritora suiza nacida en Hirzel, un pueblo en la montaña cerca de Zúrich. Era la cuarta de seis hermanos y su padre era médico rural. Spyri estudió idiomas y piano en Zúrich, donde vivió con una tía, luego pasó un año en un internado femenino, donde aprendió francés. Casada con Bernhard Spyri, se instaló en Zúrich y comenzó a publicar algunos relatos. Su primera novela aparece en 1870, seguida de una veintena entre las que se encuentra Heidi (1880).