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Johann Wyss

 

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Johann David Wyss : Swiss Family Robinson

'[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Rose Macaulay      Print: Book

  

Johann David Wyss : The Swiss Family Robinson

On 8 September 1854 Christiana Thompson noted in her diary that her children Elizabeth and Alice (later Alice Meynell) were 'reading every day with their Pa Swiss Family Robinson.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thompson Family     Print: Book

  

Johann David Wyss : The Family Robinson Crusoe: Or, Journal of a Father Shipwrecked, with his Wife and Children, on an Uninhabited Island

'Sunday August 20th. [...] Read Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Johann Wyss : The Swiss Family Robinson

'I read the whole of Swiss Family Robinson, and was not deterred by the bloodstain which had obliterated half the print on a page in the middle of the book, at the point where Ernest fitted retractable blinkers to the ostrich, so that he could guid to to right or left while seated on its back, riding the whirlwind. I read the book four times before venturing further.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Church      Print: Book

 

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