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The Swiss Family Robinson
Children's fiction
The Swiss Family Robinson
Part of the Sterling Unabridged Classics Series series
254 pages · First published 1812
The Robinson family is shipwrecked while traveling to a new life and reaches an uninhabited island with only the supplies and animals they can salvage from the vessel. Father, Mother, and their sons gradually create a remarkably elaborate home by combining ingenuity, hard work, natural resources, and knowledge of plants and animals. Encounters with danger become lessons in practical science, morality, and family cooperation. Johann David Wyss’s classic adventure is less a stark survival tale than an instructional family fantasy about self-sufficiency and the pleasures of turning wilderness into an ordered home.
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