Editing Heidi (section)

{{Short description|Swiss novel by Johanna Spyri}}
{{About|the book}}
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| name              = Heidi
| image             = Spyri Heidi Cover 1887.jpg
| caption           = The cover of an 1887 published edition
| author            = [[Johanna Spyri]]
| title_orig        = Originally published in two parts- Part 1: Heidi: Her Years of Neverending Learning, Part 2 Heidi: How She Used What She Learned
| translator        = Helen Bennett Dole
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| country           = [[Switzerland]]
| language          = German
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| genre             = [[Children's fiction]]
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| pub_date          = 1880 (1st volume) <br/> 1881 (2nd volume)
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| followed_by       = [[Heidi Grows Up]]
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| wikisource        = Heidi
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'''''Heidi''''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|aɪ|d|i}}; {{IPA|de|ˈhaɪdi|lang}}) is a work of children's fiction published between 1880 and 1881 by Swiss author [[Johanna Spyri]], originally published in two parts as '''''Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning'''''<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.e-rara.ch/sikjm/5320749|title=Heidi: her years of wandering and learning / translated from the german of Johanna Spyri by Louise Brooks: a story for children and those who love children|date=May 11, 1885|via=www.e-rara.ch}}</ref> ({{langx|de|Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre}}) and '''''Heidi: How She Used What She Learned'''''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.e-rara.ch/sikjm/5321162|title=Heidi: her years of wandering and learning / translated from the german of Johanna Spyri by Louise Brooks: a story for children and those who love children|date=May 11, 1885|website=www.e-rara.ch}}</ref> ({{langx|de|Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat}}).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=SmkZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Helen Bennett Dole], translator of the 1899 edition</ref> It is a novel about the events in the life of a 5-year-old girl in her paternal grandfather's care in the [[Swiss Alps]]. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children" (as quoted from its subtitle).

''Heidi'' is one of the [[List of best-selling books|best-selling books ever written]] and is among the best-known works of [[Swiss literature]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Swiss Literature (old link) | work=revue.ch | url=http://www.revue.ch/swisskids_en/schweizer_geschichten/SG7_eng_juli.php | access-date=March 4, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070808132233/http://www.revue.ch/swisskids_en/schweizer_geschichten/SG7_eng_juli.php | archive-date=August 8, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Swiss Literature | work=admin.ch | url=http://ead.nb.admin.ch/web/swissinfodesk/cultl-en.html | access-date=March 4, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080206223105/http://ead.nb.admin.ch/web/swissinfodesk/cultl-en.html | archive-date = February 6, 2008}}</ref>