![]() ![]() This is a story of five people who drew from Heidi new strength and made it their own becoming changed within then healed and whole again. Heidi lighted up every room she entered from the grandmother's dark corner to the grand rooms of Frankfurt mansions. ![]() Clara told her father that life was never dull with Heidi about. Heidi is a very simple girl with simple dreams and faith, for this is a book of dreams and faith. ![]() Each had a heavy burden, the grandfather, bitter at the world, rich Herr Sesemann with a beloved but perhaps dying daughter, the doctor suffering from the lost of his own daughter, the lonely, poverty stricken grandmother and wheelchair bound Clara Sesemann. It is a story of their healing and reconciliation. This is the story of three men, an old woman and a young woman each broken and alienated in their own way as told through the optimistic and cheerful orphan Heidi. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding in flowered fields with goats at your heels and sky. ![]() Hear Heidi if you've ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. On the other hand, the narrator Johanna Ward pours forth mountain tops, fir trees, goat herds, flowers, slices of goat cheese, howling winds, bright stars, heartbreak, love and the magnificent wonder of life. LibriVox recording of Heidi, by Johanna Spyri. It has always served up syrupy and unsatisfying movie versions. Hollywood through its inventions and alterations has never done justice to Johanna Spyri's Heidi. ![]()
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