Writing style
Atmospheric · Descriptive · Direct
Apple BooksHeidi
Historical fiction
- First published
- 1880
- Print length
- 285 pagesAladdin Classics, 2000
Description
Five-year-old Heidi is taken to live with her reclusive grandfather in the Swiss Alps after losing her parents and grandmother. Her delight in the mountains gradually softens him, and she forms a close friendship with the young goatherd Peter and his family. That life is interrupted when Heidi is sent to Frankfurt as a companion to Klara Sesemann, a wealthy girl who cannot walk. Confined by strict household rules, Heidi struggles with profound homesickness even as she learns to read and write and grows devoted to Klara. The contrast between city constraint and alpine freedom shapes a children’s novel about belonging, education, friendship, and the restorative influence that affection and the natural world can exert on isolated lives.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Moderate
Tone
Hopeful · Uplifting · Warm · Wistful
Structure
Linear
Focus
Atmosphere · Character · Relationships
Emotional intensity
3 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 2 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Aladdin Classics
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780689839627
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