0
  1. Home
  2. Fiction
  3. Classic fiction
  4. HEIDI
HEIDI

HEIDI

JOHANNA SPYRI

19,95 €
IVA included
Low stock
Publisher:
CHILTERN PUBLISHING
Year of publication:
2025
Subject:
Classic fiction
ISBN:
978-1-914602-59-7
Pages:
280
19,95 €
IVA included
Low stock
Add to favorites

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before: the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these books feel extra special and look striking on any shelf. One of the best-selling books of all time, Heidi is not only a defining work of Swiss literature, but a beloved masterpiece of children's fiction. Heidi, a young orphan girl, is sent by her aunt to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. A reclusive man, he is known as the Alm-Uncle by the townsfolk he avoids and disdains. Although initially wary of Heidi's presence, he soon softens, learning to love the young girl and to appreciate her inherent goodness and intelligence.

Related Articles

  • GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE AND OTHER STORIES
    GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE AND OTHER STORIES
    FLANNERY O'CONNOR
    The American South. A turbulent world, fraught with the Civil Rights struggle and toxic religious tensions. Against the backdrop of mountainous sunsets and backwater shacks, deserted highways and small-town gas stations, people forge their own lives. We encounter murderers, escaped convicts, dysfunctional families, conmen, fanatics, farmhands, Bible salesmen, troubled children,...
    Low stock

    12,50 €

  • HOP-FROG
    HOP-FROG
    EDGAR ALLAN POE
    Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who allows the reader to fill in the many ghastly blanks in his narratives of violence, retribution and animalism. It is hard to recommend Hop-Frog wholeheartedly (its original subtitle was: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) as it is s...
    Low stock

    7,50 €

  • THE FIRE NEXT TIME
    THE FIRE NEXT TIME
    JAMES BALDWIN
    'It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate' Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin's early life in Harlem and his exper...
    Low stock

    7,50 €

  • THE BLAZING WORLD
    THE BLAZING WORLD
    MARGARET CAVENDISH
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security' In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there was a crack in reality at the North Pole leading to a utopian parallel universe, where gender roles, scientific orthodoxy and political norms had been razed to the ground. ...
    Low stock

    7,50 €

  • THE RICH BOY
    THE RICH BOY
    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . . In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald's short stories, we meet Anson Hunter, 'The Rich Boy', whose opulent, haunting world paints a vivid portrait of the American elite. 'Absolution' offers a poignant glimpse into the soul of a young boy grappling with sin, whilst 'May Day' captures the whir...
    Low stock

    7,50 €

  • A CONFIRMED BACHELOR
    A CONFIRMED BACHELOR
    ARTHUR SCHNITZLER
    Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim family, and is particularly drawn to their daughter Sabine. But a simple, stilted courtship soon unravels a web of hushed-up suicide and illicit sexual liaisons. Arthur Schnitzler'...
    Low stock

    7,50 €

Other books by the author

  • HEIDI
    HEIDI
    JOHANNA SPYRI
    When Heidi's parents die and she can no longer live with her aunt, she must stay with her ill-tempered grandfather who lives alone in the Swiss Alps. The townspeople worry that such a young girl has been left with a bad-tempered hermit. But Heidi thrives in the mountains and loves living with her grandfather. She is happiest playing with the mountain goats, picking wildflowers,...
    No stock. Please check price

    8,75 €

  • HEIDI
    HEIDI
    JOHANNA SPYRI
    Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It has been filmed and televised several times. It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, and eventually it is arranged ...
    No stock. Please check price

    4,95 €