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  1. The Swiss Family Robinson

    Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of "The Swiss Family Robinson" by Johann David Wyss. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt ...

  2. The Swiss Family Robinson

    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 ...

  3. Swiss Family Robinson Book Review: Necessity is the Mother of Invention

    Swiss Family Robinson. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss is really about innovation and making lemonade when life dishes out lemons. First published in 1812, the story is about a Swiss pastor and his family (wife and four sons) who survive a shipwreck and create a new way of life on an unexplored island in the East Indies.

  4. The Swiss Family Robinson Summary

    The Swiss Family Robinson Summary The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss is the story of a shipwrecked family who build a new life for themselves on a remote island.

  5. The Swiss Family Robinson Analysis

    Analysis. The Swiss Family Robinson is a Robinsonade, a specific genre of story modeled after Daniel Defoe's influential 1719 adventure novel, Robinson Crusoe. Defoe's work follows the story ...

  6. The Swiss Family Robinson

    The Swiss Family Robinson, novel for children completed and edited by Johann Rudolf Wyss, published in German as Der schweizerische Robinson (1812-27). The original manuscript of the novel had been written by Wyss's father, Johann David, a clergyman, for and with the aid of his four sons. After the initial publication of an incomplete version, which was translated into French (with ...

  7. The Swiss Family Robinson

    One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons—a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestock. Inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, this heartwarming tale portrays a family's struggle to create a new life on a strange and fantastic tropical island.

  8. The Swiss Family Robinson

    The authoritative original English version of a beloved classic. One of the world's best-loved stories of shipwreck and survival, The Swiss Family Robinson portrays a family's struggle to create a new life for themselves on a strange and fantastic tropical island. Blown off course by a raging storm, the family, a Swiss pastor, his wife, their ...

  9. The Swiss Family Robinson

    Rich in action and suspense, The Swiss Family Robinson is an exhilarating novel takes us to a faraway place of danger and beauty, where the courageous Robinson family embarks on a thrilling new life of adventure and discovery. With an Introduction by J. Hillis millerand an Afterword by Elizabeth Janeway.

  10. The Swiss Family Robinson

    One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons—a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestock. Inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, this heartwarming tale portrays a family's struggle to create a new life on a strange and fantastic tropical island.

  11. Book Review: The Swiss Family Robinson

    The book was written by a Swiss pastor, Johann David Wyss, and originally published in 1812. Wyss wrote the story for his sons to teach about spiritual and family values, industriousness, and wise uses of plants and animals. One of his sons edited the book and one of them illustrated it (both named Johann, like their father, but with different middle names).

  12. Swiss Family Robinson Summary of Key Ideas and Review

    Gain a complete understanding of "Swiss Family Robinson" by Johann David Wyss from Blinkist. The "Swiss Family Robinson" book summary will give you access to a synopsis of key ideas, a short story, and an audio summary.

  13. "Swiss Family Robinson" Book

    Swiss Family Robinson, an adaptation of Daniel Defoe 's Robinson Crusoe, was first published in 1812 and enjoyed great success. A tale of a family shipwrecked and stranded on a desert island, it is still to be found on many reading lists for upper elementary and middle school students. In it, the characters model both resourcefulness and ...

  14. The Swiss Family Robinson—A Good Read for Right Now

    The book opens with a Swiss family named Robinson huddled in the hold of a sailing ship, trying to survive a great storm. When the ship's crew abandons the ship without the Robinson family, the parents, William and Elizabeth, and their four children (Fritz, Ernest, Jack and Franz) must learn to survive on their own.

  15. The Swiss Family Robinson

    One family will emerge alive from this terrible storm: the Robinsons—a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestock. Inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, this heartwarming tale portrays a family's struggle to create a new life on a strange and fantastic tropical island.

  16. The Swiss Family Robinson Chapter Summaries

    Chapter 1 Summary. Since its first publication in 1812, Johann Wyss's novel, The Swiss Family Robinson, has been edited and/or translated into various lengths, ranging from eighteen to fifty-two ...

  17. The Swiss Family Robinson

    The Swiss Family Robinson. The Swiss Family Robinson is an adventure story with a decidedly domestic centre, in which smugness and safety thoroughly outbalance the element of danger. Inspired by Rousseau's theories of education, the story of the shipwrecked Swiss pastor and his family is liberally seasoned with suspense, adventure, and discovery.

  18. Book Review: The Swiss Family Robinson

    Swiss Family Robinson is a gold mine of information on almost every branch of science and I soaked it all in; how to tap rubber trees, the natural history of the agouti, the use of levers and pulleys. It's also a great vocabulary-building book. You may find a number of unfamiliar words: verdure, anomaly, dulcet - but it's a relatively ...

  19. The Swiss Family Robinson

    The story of the Robinson family of Switzerland--a minister, his wife, and four sons--begins as they are tossed about at sea by raging winds and surging waves. Miraculously, they survive the storm, and the terrifying shipwreck that follows, only to be marooned on a remote tropical island.

  20. The Swiss Family Robinson by Ron Padgett

    'The Swiss Family Robinson' by Ron Padgett, and the literary and historical notes for Monday, June 17, 2013.