The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss
"The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island" by Johann David Wyss is a novel first published in 1812. When a Swiss family's ship is wrecked in the East Indies, they find themselves stranded without the crew. Parents William and Elizabeth, along with their four sons, must reach a nearby island and build a new life from scratch. Using the ship's surviving cargo and livestock, they create a settlement and
face various adventures in their struggle for survival. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818 |
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| Illustrator | Gilbert, John, 1817-1897 |
| Title | The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swiss_Family_Robinson |
| Credits | Charlie Kirschner, the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team and Richard Tonsing |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| 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. | 11703 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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