Swiss Family Robinson (Illustrated Classic): 200th Anniversary Collection (original 1812; edition 2019)

I read the English translation based on the continuation by Isabelle de Montolieu.

Dull, moralizing, and silly. A Swiss family is ship wrecked on a desert island where they are fortunate enough to find almost everything they need to reproduce the necessities of European life. The island has an unlikely combination of natural resources and, for such a rich place, a rather surprising lack of dangers. Back in a time when flamingos and buffalo were exotic creatures, this book might have been interesting, but to a modern adult reader, it's painfully tedious. ( )

classic

too much killing of animals when I read it as a boy ( )

In the novel a minister, his wife, and their four sons are shipwrecked and become castaways on an island in the East Indies. Although they have lost almost everything in the shipwreck, they are so resourceful at constructing a life for themselves on the island that, when rescue comes, they decline to leave their refuge and their happy life. ( )

Year 5