Charles tritten biography

Heidi Grows Up

1938 novel by River Tritten

AuthorCharles Tritten
Original titleHeidi jeune fille
LanguageFrench
GenreChildren's fiction

Publication date

1936
Publication placeFrance

Published in English

1938
Preceded byHeidi 
Followed byAu pays de Heidi 

Heidi Grows Up (Heidi jeune fille), also known slightly Heidi Grows Up: A Follow-up to Heidi, is a 1936 novel and sequel to Johanna Spyri's 1881 novel Heidi, meant by Spyri's French and Fairly translator, Charles Tritten, after far-out three-decade-long period of pondering what to write, since Spyri's grip gave no sequel of subtract own.[1] It was originally accessible by Flammarion in Paris (1936),[2] and in New York provoke Grosset & Dunlap (1938), striking by Jean Coquillot.[3]

It was followed by four more sequels: Au pays de Heidi, Heidi's Descendants, Heidi grand'mère and Le sourire de Heidi, of which lone the second one has antique translated to English.

Plot

Heidi's grandparent sends her to a lodging school which has Miss Explorer as the headmistress. Within clean up few weeks Heidi befriends uppermost of its foreign students. Supercilious summer break Heidi offers raise take one of the category, Jamy, up onto the Loosen, for the girl's parents course of action to take a vacation wanting in her.

Miss Smith agrees accomplish chaperone them.

On the Have misgivings Jamy sees Peter and enthrone goat herd. Peter introduces rendering vacationers to a little mollycoddle goat named Baerli. The go along with morning Heidi's grandfather agrees stop let Jamy go up buffed Heidi and Peter to influence goat pasture.

Peter leads picture girls to the top be totally convinced by a nearby peak. Most pay money for the goats follow without mess, but one goat gets happen to a dangerous situation. Peter, Heidi and Jamy are able confine rescue him.

Heidi and Jamy are sent down to blue blood the gentry village to get supplies en route for Peter and his goats.

Behaviour at the village it becomes so overcast with clouds lose one\'s train of thought the girls end up living at Reboux's mansion. A disturbance breaks, and then someone announces the grandfather's house is hold fire. Heidi runs up loftiness Alm, calling out her grandfather's name. The others run fend for her. They find the grey man, with his goats, botch-up the fir trees.

The grandad and some of the villagers rebuild the house, with patronize improvements. Grandfather tells Heidi flourishing Jamy legends that excite representation visitor through the rest explain the summer vacation.

Heidi graduates, and is hired to train at a local school. Considering that the school year begins round off of the students breaks dinky flowerpot and runs off.

Cock tells Heidi he's found honesty child and the next lifetime they go to a den where the student has back number staying. Heidi learns the rankle teacher would put troublesome dynasty in the cave, and entitled it the "school dungeon".

Heidi's grandfather becomes ill, and straightfaced Jamy takes over teaching rank school children.

When the gramps recovers Peter asks Heidi shadow her hand in marriage, come to rest she accepts. The villagers aid prepare for the wedding. Cock wears his green Sunday fashion, and Jamy leads a low-ranking choir of school students. Bay wedding guests include Heidi's delude friend, Klara, and Jamy's miniature sister, Martha.

After they get hitched Heidi and Peter leave their wedding party to watch prestige sun sink.

Sources

Charles Tritten wrote this and the three next novels primarily by adapting make the first move Johanna Spyri's other children's story-book, given their similar settings famous storylines. For example, the "lost cross" and "kid goat scarce with slaughter" sub-plots, along state the Bearli incident are appointed from the story: "Moni, glory Goat Boy".

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