by Johann David Wyss · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621389
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«The Swiss Family Robinson» is the adventure novel by Johann David Wyss, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (336 pages, in English).
The novel recounts how a Swiss couple and their four children, after being shipwrecked, must adapt to a desert island. With ingenuity, they build shelters, domesticate animals and cultivate the land to survive, while exploring the environment and discovering its natural resources. It is a story of survival and life in nature.
This edition is part of the Penguin Popular Classics collection. The work was originally published in 1812 under the title «Der Schweizerische Robinson».
Suitable for young and adult readers interested in adventure and survival classics.
Johann David Wyss was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (1812). He was born and died in Bern. It is said that he was inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, but wanted to write a story from which his own children would learn, as the father in the story taught important lessons to his children. The Swiss Family Robinson was first published in German in 1812, then translated into English two years later. The book was edited by his son, Johann Rudolf Wyss, a scholar known for writing the Swiss national anthem, Rufst du, mein Vaterland. Another of Wyss's sons, Johann Emmanuel Wyss, illustrated the book. Johann David Wyss died in 1818 at the age of 74. He lived longer than his son Johann Rudolf, who would die twelve years later at the age of 48.
