Johanna Spyri's story of an orphaned girl sent up into the Swiss Alps to live with the grandfather nobody in the valley speaks well of has been read by children for well over a century. Heidi settles into the mountain year — goats, cheese, hay beds in the loft, the long walk up to the pasture with Peter — and then is taken away to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara, a wealthy girl who cannot walk. The homesickness that follows, and the return to the mountains, is the heart of the book. Spyri wrote it in German; this is an English edition.
It is published in Sri Lanka by M. D. Gunasena & Co. as part of the house's Timeless Classics series, a line of well-known works of fiction reissued for a new readership. Gunasena is a long-established Colombo publisher and bookseller, and the series is aimed at ordinary school-age and family reading rather than at scholars — plain English, no critical apparatus.
Suitable for confident younger readers and for adults coming back to a book they first met as a child. Buyers who want a Sri Lankan-published English edition of a standard children's classic, rather than an imported one, will find this is what the series sets out to supply.
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552132094
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