Heidi (1880-81) - Johanna Spyri

Written by Johanna Spyri
Read by Frances Cassidy
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Release date: December 12, 2006
Duration: 05:44:30

Orphaned at an early age and taken in by her young aunt Dete, Heidi is soon in the way.

Dete has a new and better job where Heidi is not welcome, so the child must live with her curmudgeon of a grandfather high on the Alm Mountain in the Swiss Alps. Everyone calls him the Alm-Uncle because he never comes down to the village, even in the coldest winter, and he’s developed a reputation as an evil, godless old hermit. But Heidi soon finds that things are not always what others say they are, makes friends with the Alm-Uncle, and happily runs wild in the glorious mountains with the goat boy, Peter, and his goats.

Suddenly, Dete appears again, and Heidi finds herself confined in a stone house in a stone city where she is expected to be companion to the invalid Clara. Dete sees this as a great opportunity for Heidi, one that will provide her with an education and polish. But, bitterly unhappy away from her grandfather and the outdoor life she has grown to love, Heidi at last makes her way back to the Alm.

How Klara finally comes to the mountains as well, and the surprising events that follow, form the heartwarming ending to a story that has been loved for generations by children all over the world.

A problem with audiobook editions of this classic is that it has been translated over and over again and they can range from 3 hours to 8 hours in range and all call themselves unabridged or original editions. This is one edition, I’ll find at lest one other for you to judge.