Heidi: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Heidi, credited to Johanna Spyri, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Heidi, by Johanna Spyri. Read by Kara Shallenberg. Hear Heidi if you've ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. 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 utterly surrounding you. We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt who has raised the orphan but must leave now for a position in Frankfurt. In a mountain cottage overlooking the valley is Heidi's grandfather, and there with him the girl's sweet, free nature expands with the vista. The author's voice is straightforward, and so is our reader's, with the child's wonder, devotion, and sometimes humorous good intentions. When Heidi is taken from the mountains and nearly doesn't make it back again, the most humorous as well as most heart-wringing scenes occur. All she learns during her absence from the mountain she brings back as seeds that will grow to benefit everyone around her. (Summary by Anita)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Heidi
• Author credits: Johanna Spyri
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 9:45:20

Catalogue topics

• children
• Switzerland
• Germany
• alps
• mountains
• city

Track guide

1. Chapter 1 - Up the Mountain to Alm-Uncle — 32:55
2. Chapter 2 - At Home with Grandfather — 18:38
3. Chapter 3 - Out With The Goats — 31:04
4. Chapter 4 - The Visit to Grandmother — 31:33
5. Chapter 5 - Two Visits and What Came of Them — 23:41
6. Chapter 6 - A New Chapter About New Things — 18:41
7. Chapter 7 - Fraulein Rottenmeier Spends an Uncomfortable Day — 31:49
8. Chapter 8 - There is Great Commotion in the Large House — 24:17
9. Chapter 9 - Herr Sesemann Hears of Things Which are New to Him — 13:49
10. Chapter 10 - Another Grandmother — 21:43
11. Chapter 11 - Heidi Gains in One Way and Loses in Another — 11:50
12. Chapter 12 - A Ghost in the House — 25:29
13. Chapter 13 - A Summer Evening on the Mountain — 37:33
14. Chapter 14 - Sunday Bells — 30:03
15. Chapter 15 - Preparations for a Journey — 15:34
16. Chapter 16 - A Visitor — 20:01
17. Chapter 17 - A Compensation — 19:13
18. Chapter 18 - Winter in Dorfli — 24:00
19. Chapter 19 - The Winter Continues — 16:38
20. Chapter 20 - News from Distant Friends — 36:43
21. Chapter 21 - How Life Went on at Grandfather's — 18:54
22. Chapter 22 - Something Unexpected Happens — 32:35
23. Chapter 23 - Goodbye Til We Meet Again — 48:50

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