The Swiss Family Robinson: A Translation from the Original German by Wyss
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"The Swiss Family Robinson: A Translation from the Original German by Wyss" by Johann David Wyss is a novel first published in 1812. After their ship is wrecked in the East Indies, a Swiss family finds themselves stranded on a deserted island. The parents and their four sons must build a new life from scratch, using the ship's salvaged supplies and the island's natural resources. Through ingenuity and cooperation, they create a
settlement and face various adventures in their tropical refuge, all while wondering if rescue will ever come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Wyss, Johann Rudolf, 1782-1830 |
| Illustrator | Rogers, Walter S. (Walter Stanton), 1870-1937 |
| Translator | Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880 |
| Title | The Swiss Family Robinson: A Translation from the Original German |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swiss_Family_Robinson |
| Credits |
Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Kara Shallenberg, Asad Razzaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 71.4 (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. | 41659 |
| Release Date | Dec 19, 2012 |
| Last Update | Nov 27, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1174 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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