The Swiss Family Robinson
by Wyss, Johann D.; Miller, J. Hillis; Janeway, ElizabethEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-12-07
Publisher(s): Signet Classics
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Summary
With a new introduction by J. Hillis Miller Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and four young sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island. Thus begins the classic story of survival and adventure that has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812.
Author Biography
Johann David Wyss (1743–1818) was an army chaplain with four sons; it was to entertain them that he wrote The Swiss Family Robinson. His son Johan Rudolf prepared the manuscript for publication in Zurich in 1812–13. The first English edition was translated by William Godwin in 1814.
J. Hillis Miller taught for many years at Johns Hopkins University and then at Yale University, before going to the University of California at Irvine in 1986, where he is now a UCI Distinguished Research Professor. He is the author of many books and essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, European, and American literature and on literary theory. His books include Others, Speech Acts in Literature, and On Literature, the last of which includes a section on The Swiss Family Robinson.
Literary critic and feminist thinker Elizabeth Janeway is the author of six novels and many works of nonfiction, including Improper Behavior, Powers of the Weak, and Between Myth and Morning.
Table of Contents
| Shipwrecked and Alone | p. 1 |
| A Desolate Island | p. 9 |
| We Explore Our Island | p. 19 |
| The Homeward Journey | p. 28 |
| We Revisit the Wreck | p. 35 |
| Mother Makes a Suggestion | p. 45 |
| We Build a Bridge | p. 52 |
| The Journey to the Wonderful Trees | p. 58 |
| The Tree-House | p. 64 |
| A Visit to Tentholm | p. 71 |
| The Strange Animal | p. 78 |
| Towed by a Turtle | p. 85 |
| An Important Experiment | p. 92 |
| The Pinnace and the Petard | p. 99 |
| The Calabash Wood | p. 105 |
| Last Visit to the Wreck | p. 115 |
| The Buffalo Hunt | p. 122 |
| The Hollow Tree | p. 131 |
| The Rainy Season | p. 139 |
| The Salt Cavern | p. 145 |
| "Woodlands" | p. 155 |
| Thanksgiving Day | p. 161 |
| The Island Sports Carnival | p. 165 |
| A Midnight Raid | p. 173 |
| The Stranded Whale | p. 184 |
| Jack Discovers a Skeleton | p. 193 |
| Death of a Monster | p. 198 |
| An Inland Journey | p. 208 |
| The Desert | p. 214 |
| Ostriches and Bears | p. 221 |
| The Captive Ostrich | p. 230 |
| Home Again | p. 238 |
| A Visit to Whale Island | p. 244 |
| Our First Harvest | p. 251 |
| The Trial of the "Sea Horse" | p. 257 |
| News by Pigeon Post | p. 263 |
| To the Rescue | p. 268 |
| After Ten Years | p. 274 |
| The Mysterious Message | p. 281 |
| Fritz Says Good-bye | p. 288 |
| The Stranger | p. 293 |
| Jenny | p. 302 |
| The Mysterious Guns | p. 311 |
| Three Cheers for New Switzerland! | p. 320 |
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