Who is the author of Swiss Family Robinson?
Bibliographic Record [help] Author Wyss, Johann David, 1743-1818 Title The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island Language English LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres Subject Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. — Fiction Subject Islands — Fiction Subject Family — Fiction EText-No. 11703 Release Date 2004-03-01 Copyright Status Not copyrighted in the United States. If you live elsewhere check the laws of your country before downloading this ebook. Base Directory /files/11703/ Sources: http://www.gutenberg.
As written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss, and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance. Wyss’s attitude towards education is in line with the teachings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and many of the episodes have to do with Christian-oriented moral lessons (frugality, husbandry, resignation, co-operation, etc).[1] The adventures are presented as a series of lessons in natural history and the physical sciences and resemble other similar educational books for children in this period, for example, Charlotte Turner Smith’s Rural Walks: in Dialogues intended for the use of Young Persons (1795), Rambles Further: A continuation of Rural Walks (1796), A Natural History of Birds, intended chiefly for young persons (1807). However the novel differs in that it is based on the model of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, a genuine adventure story,[1] and presents a scientifically impo
As written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss, and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance. Wyss’s attitude towards education is in line with the teachings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and many of the episodes have to do with Christian-oriented moral lessons (frugality, husbandry, resignation, co-operation, etc). Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
