{"id":238,"date":"2024-11-29T21:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T21:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athaeneum\/?p=238"},"modified":"2024-12-07T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T16:22:07","slug":"mazli-a-story-of-the-swiss-valleys-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/mazli-a-story-of-the-swiss-valleys-1923\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e4zli: A Story of the Swiss Valleys (1923)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-248\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-100-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-248 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Mazli\" data-height=\"700\" data-width=\"700\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_248\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_248\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-250 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2024-11-29 21:46:46\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2049\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mazli-scaled.jpg\" class=\"slider-248 slide-250 msDefaultImage\" alt=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"Mazli\" style=\"margin: 0 auto; width: 80.0390625%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mazli-scaled.jpg 2049w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mazli-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mazli-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mazli-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mazli-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Mazli-1639x2048.jpg 1639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2049px) 100vw, 2049px\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Title: M\u00e4zli: A Story of the Swiss Valleys<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Author: Johanna Spyri<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Estimated year of printing: 1923<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ex Libris: Marie Buckley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGift Edition\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Copyright 1921<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional illustrations copyright 1923<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author who lived from 1827 until 1901.&nbsp; She is best known for writing <em>Heidi, <\/em>a children\u2019s book about a 5-year old girl\u2019s life in the Swiss Alps which was published in 1881 and is one of the best selling books ever written. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>M\u00e4zli<\/em> is not as well known, but has a similar theme \u2014 M\u00e4zli is the youngest of 8 siblings living in the Swiss Valleys.&nbsp; This book was originally written in German, published in 1891.&nbsp; The first publication in English was in 1921, this is a \u201cGift Edition\u201d published shortly after in 1923 with additional color illustrations throughout. In addition to this edition with a red cover, an almost identical edition was published at the same time with a light green cover. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Historical context:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book was printed in 1923, the year that Bob Barker, Henry Kissinger, and Charlton Heston were born.\u00a0 It was also the year that President Warren G. Harding, physicist Wilhelm Rontgen (who discovered X-rays), and Gustave Eiffel (who designed the Eiffel Tower) died.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes: Ex Libris: Marie Buckley \u201cGift Edition\u201d Copyright 1921 Additional illustrations copyright 1923 Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author who lived from 1827 until 1901.&nbsp; She is best known for writing Heidi, a children\u2019s book about a 5-year old girl\u2019s life in the Swiss Alps which was published in 1881 and is one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leedberg.com\/athenaeum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}