![]() ![]() ![]() He welcomes Heidi into his modest home, and they become fast friends. Shunned by the townsfolk, Grandfather lives alone in a remote mountain hut. Dete forces Heidi to hike from Dörfli up the mountain, where she will live with her grandfather, called “Uncle Alp” by the villagers. Dete’s mother dies as well, leaving Dete as Heidi’s sole caregiver, but she wants to take a new job in the city and can no longer care for her niece. The source material for this guide comes from the 1956 translation from Penguin Random House UK, reissued in 2015 as a Puffin Classic edition, therefore names and wordings may vary.ĭete’s sister Adelheid dies, leaving her and her mother to care for her daughter, Heidi. In addition to Heidi, Spyri published 32 other children’s books before she died in 1901. However, before Spyri’s death, she burned all her private letters and journals, leaving much of her life a mystery. Spyri’s depiction of the idyllic, simple past of Alpine life is believed to be partially autobiographical, as she spent her summers in a village called Maienfeld. Spyri was born in Hirzel, a Zurich village that shares a border with the German Rhineland. ![]()
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