Heidi

Johanna Spyri's classic novel about an orphaned girl sent to live with her reclusive grandfather high in the Swiss Alps, and what happens when she is later taken to the city to be a companion to an invalid girl.

First published in Switzerland in two parts, Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre (1880) and Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat (1881), the two have long been issued together in English as the single novel Heidi. Spyri wrote no further installments; later "Heidi" sequels published under other names are not part of her original story.