The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss
"The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on 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. The parents and their four sons must reach a nearby island and build a new life from scratch. Using salvaged supplies and the island's resources, they create a settlement and face various adventures.
Will they ever see civilization again, or will this island become their permanent home? (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818 |
|---|---|
| Dubious author | Wyss, Johann Rudolf, 1782-1830 |
| Illustrator | Winter, Milo, 1888-1956 |
| Title | The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island |
| Note | Jean Rudolph Wyss is credited as author on title page of this edition, but his father Johann David Wyss is more commonly listed as author. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swiss_Family_Robinson |
| Credits |
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 71.6 (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. | 34808 |
| Release Date | Jan 1, 2011 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 610 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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