Wyss è ricordato principalmente per un'opera ispirata da predecessori letterari, creata con l'intento di educare i suoi figli. Il suo celebre romanzo, spesso considerato una pietra miliare della letteratura d'avventura, ha raggiunto un'immensa popolarità in tutto il mondo. Narra la storia di una famiglia che lotta per sopravvivere e prosperare in una natura selvaggia e remota, enfatizzando temi di intraprendenza, legami familiari e fede. L'autore mirava a creare una narrazione avvincente che non solo intrattenesse, ma impartisse anche lezioni morali e pratiche, consolidando la sua eredità di narratore.
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Volkskunde, Völkerkunde, Brauchtum ; Schweiz ; Musik.
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 four young sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestock-must rely on one another in order to adapt to their needs the natural wonders of their exotic new home. Inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, this classic story of invention and adventure has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812. Freely translated over the years, with major sections excised and new subplots added, the novel is published here in its original English translation.