What Dragos is reading |
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Heidi |
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Author: |
Johanna Spyri |
Available Reviews |
Heidi, Johanna Spyri
Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
The Forgettables, Jay Acton
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Nietzsche
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Hamlet, William Faulkner
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith
The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk
Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, Joseph Conrad
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Dreamsnake, Vonda Mcintyre
Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
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| Publication Year: |
1880 |
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280 Pages |
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Swiss German |
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| Critics say... |
Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the
Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has
charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's
story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often
taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of
the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the
reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome.
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