Swiss Family Robinson, the (1813) [Novel]
by Johann Wyss
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A minister, his wife, and four young sons are shipwrecked in a storm and deserted by the crew. Forced back onto their own devices, they make their way onto the shores of a wild and uninhabited island. With what things they can salvage from their ship plus a great deal of pluck and imagination, they turn their desert island into a home so agreeable they have no wish to be rescued.
Original title: Der Schweizerische Robinson, Oder der Schriffbruchige Schweizerprediger und Seine Familie
Original languages:
German
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Genre: Fiction→ Children & Young Adult→ Adventure→ Wilderness Survival
This work is excerpted in the following works :
Book of Islands, a (1971) [Anthology]
Authors: Rudyard Kipling
, Daniel Defoe
, Arthur Conan Doyle
, Alexandre Dumas (pere)
, Jonathan Swift
, Jules Verne
, H. G. Wells
, William Golding
, Algernon Blackwood
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, W. Somerset Maugham
, Herman Melville
, Washington Irving
, Liam O'Flaherty
, Guy de Maupassant
, Lloyd Osbourne
, Richard Harding Davis
, Richard Connell
, Johann Wyss
, Edward Bellamy
, Arthur J. Burks
, Frederick Marryat
, Unknown Author
, Lafcadio Hearn
, Homer
, Giovanni Verga
, Prosper Mérimée
, Rudolf Erich Raspe
, Stratis Myrivilis
This work is an imitation of the following works :
Robinson Crusoe (1719) [Novel]
Author: Daniel Defoe
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