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The Unofficial SPACE FAMILY ROBINSON Home Page Home Introduction About Gold Key Comics Space Family Robinson #1 ... Decline Johann David Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson This young readers' classic first appeared in English in 1813. It began life as a manuscript story about a shipwrecked family that Johann David Wyss (1743-1818), a Swiss clergyman of Bern, read to his four sons. His son Johann Rudolf Wyss (1781-1830) established himself as a noted writer, philosopher and Swiss folklorist after graduating from university, and eventually adapted his father's manuscript into a novel. The original Swiss edition, in German, was published in 1812 under the title Der Schweizerische Robinson, Oder der Schiffbruchige Schweizerprediger und Seine Familie. If it were literally translated, the English title could have come down to us as The Swiss Robinsons, or the Shipwrecked Swiss Preacher and his Family. The novel's main characters are Pastor Robinson and his wife; their four sons, (ranging from 15 to 7 years of age) Fritz, Ernest, Jack and Franz; and their dogs, two mastiffs named Turk and Juno. They are shipwrecked on an island somewhere in the far southwestern Pacific, and defense against Malaysian pirates is an ongoing concern of the castaway family. After the Robinsons salvage livestock and goods from the shipwreck, they establish a highly elaborate settlement on the island that they eventually take to calling "New Switzerland." Of course, the elder Wyss belonged to a generation that highly admired Daniel Defoe's famous castaway novel

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