Johann David Wyss's tale of a shipwrecked family making a life on an uninhabited island has been read by children and adults since it first appeared in German. The father, mother and four sons salvage what they can from the wreck, build shelter, learn which plants and animals the island offers, and gradually turn survival into something like a settled home. Wyss, a Swiss pastor, wrote it for his own sons, and the instructive streak shows: every problem the family meets becomes an occasion for ingenuity, observation and a lesson quietly delivered.
This English edition comes from M. D. Gunasena & Co. of Colombo, as part of their Timeless Classics series, which gathers well-known works of fiction from different periods and genres in uniform editions. It is the kind of book usually met first in childhood — a reader coming to it for school, a parent reading aloud, or an adult returning to a story remembered in fragments.
- Author: Johann David Wyss
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552132933
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