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Gritli's Children

Gritli's Children

by Johanna Spyri
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/07/2006

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"Dear child," she said now, in a voice which trembled with anxiety and affection, "you know that you are too tired to go out in the morning; but this afternoon, perhaps, we will go down to the river. Will not that be better, my darling?" "Oh, yes, I suppose so," sighed the child; but though she said no more, she did not turn her eyes away from the blooming roses and the waving leaves below her. "Oh, it is so beautiful down there! Do let me go out, mamma!"
ISBN:
9781598184136
9781598184136
Category:
Educational: English language: readers & reading schemes
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-07-2006
Publisher:
Alan Rodgers Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
152x229x12mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Johanna Spyri

Johanna Spyri was born in a country village in Switzerland in 1827. Her father was a doctor and she had five brothers and sisters.

Later she moved to the capital Zurich to go to school and she eventually settled there with her husband Bernhard,who was a lawyer. Johanna began writing in 1871 and wrote many stories which quickly became very popular.

Her husband and son both died tragically in 1884, but Johanna consoled herself with charity work and writing, as well as looking after her orphaned niece.

She died in her Swiss village home in 1903. Heidi is Johanna Spyri's best known and most popular novel - it has been translated from German into over fifty languages and over fifty million copies have been sold worldwide.

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