Heidi is an adapted Pre-intermediate Level reader written by Johanna Sypri. When Heidi goes to live in the mountains with her grandfather, everyone believes they will both be unhappy.
But Heidi grows to love her new life, until her aunt Detie visits insisting Heidi moves to Frankfurt. Will she ever return?
Heidi is an adapted Pre-intermediate Level reader written by Johanna Sypri. When Heidi goes to live in the mountains with her grandfather, everyone believes they will both be unhappy. But Heidi grows to love her new life, until her aunt Detie visits insisting Heidi moves to Frankfurt. Will she ever return?
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Louise Spyri (German: [joˈhana ˈʃpiːri]; née Heusser [ˈhɔʏsər]; 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.
Biography
In 1852, Johanna Heusser married a lawyer named Bernhard Spyri. Whilst living in the city of Zürich she began to write about life in the country. Her first story, "A Leaf on Vrony's Grave", [1] which deals with a woman's life of domestic violence, was published in 1873; the following years further stories for both adults and children appeared, among them the novel Heidi, which she wrote in four weeks only. Heidi tells the story of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, and is famous for its vivid portrayal of the landscape.
Spyri's husband and her only child, both named Bernhard, both died in 1884. Alone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more stories before her death in 1901. She was interred in the family plot at the Sihlfeld-A Cemetery in Zürich. An icon in Switzerland, Spyri's portrait was placed on a postage stamp in 1951 and on a 20 CHF commemorative coin in 2009.
