1881Heidi
Johanna Spyri
The orphan Heidi is sent to live with her gruff grandfather on the high alp above a Swiss mountain village, where she thrives among the goats and the sunshine, until she is taken away to be companion to the invalid Clara in Frankfurt and pines for the mountains. Spyri set her village, the Dörfli, at Maienfeld in the canton of Graubünden: the grandfather's hut on the alp above the town, the high pastures where Peter grazes the goats, and the return from Frankfurt to the healing air of the heights.
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