The Swiss family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
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The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson, "The Swiss Robinson") is a novel by the Swiss author Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. The ship's crew is lost, but the family and several domestic animals survive. They make their way to shore, where they build a
settlement, undergoing several adventures before being rescued; some refuse rescue and remain on the island. The book is the most successful of a large number of "Robinsonade" novels that were written in response to the success of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719). It has gone through a large number of versions and adaptations. (This summary is from Wikipedia.)
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| Author | Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Robinson, T. H. (Thomas Heath), 1869-1954 |
| Title | The Swiss family Robinson |
| Original Publication | Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1931. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swiss_Family_Robinson |
| Credits | Carol Brown, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Summary |
The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson, "The Swiss Robinson") is a novel by the Swiss author Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. The ship's crew is lost, but the family and several domestic animals survive. They make their way to shore, where they build a settlement, undergoing several adventures before being rescued; some refuse rescue and remain on the island. The book is the most successful of a large number of "Robinsonade" novels that were written in response to the success of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719). It has gone through a large number of versions and adaptations. (This summary is from Wikipedia.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Islands -- Fiction |
| Subject | Survival -- Fiction |
| Subject | Family life -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78017 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-78017-7 |
| Release Date | Feb 23, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2014 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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