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Swiss Robinson Family

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 initial appeared in 1812.

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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful.
Check the publisher very conservatively before you buy "Swiss Family Robinson."
By Kiwi
Check the publisher very conservatively before you buy "Swiss Family Robinson." One of the versions available, published by General Books LLC, has reviews affiliated with completely dissimilar imprints of the book from authenti publishers.

Be cautioned that the contents of the version of Swiss Family Robinson published by General Books LLC is wholly unaltered garbage. Also be admonished that when you do the "Look Inside," you're not looking at the General Books LLC version, you're looking at an effigy of the book from a authenti publisher that genuinely edits and checks their work. And the reason is....

General Books LLC puts together books using an OCR automated scanning device which misses finish pages. There are a good deal of Typos and there's no table of contents. There is ABSOLUTELY NO EDITING of any kind done to the book, and the scanning is done by a robot (which the publishers web site says may miss pages).

This is all stated on the publishers web web site (google them and read - you'll be as stunned as I was when you get all the details). The Almost each review of books published by General Books LLC (around 500,000 of them from one imprint or another now listed on Amazon) by buyers is negative, a lot of are exceedingly so.

If you have purchased the version from General Books LLC by mistake, you may return to Amazon within 30 days(but check Amazon's Return Policy for the details) .

Personally, I always liked Swiss Family Robinson, my one star review is for the General Books LLC version.

52 of 55 persons found the following review helpful.
Incomplete translation / conversion
By Robert L. Huggins
The story is, of course, a classic! I doubt numerous would finish reading it in these days given how dated the language and story line feel. My one-star rating is solely due to the fact that this peculiar version is incomplete. The missing pages have a unfathomed affect on enjoying / profiting a full understanding of the story. I feel the version description will have to mention the missing text!

24 of 24 humans found the following review helpful.
Wonderful adventure and nature story
By Mark E. Baxter
I seldom give 5 star reviews but this 200 year old book deserves it. It is well-written, well-paced, full of adventure, and is a terrifi book on man's interactions with nature and the environment.

A shipwreck strands a family headed for the new world with not one thing but the ship's furnishes and each other on a desert isle. Through hard work and cognition of the natural world, they are capable to not just survive, but thrive on the island. There is no better adventure in the natural world survival story.

This book is so good and so well-regarded that there have been multiple schmaltzy movie versions over the years. DON'T SEE THEM UNTIL YOU READ THE BOOK! The writing moves well and the plot line includes a great deal of excitement. Although this book is 200 years old, the author wrote it as an action book and it does not drag like other works of the time like "Last of the Mohicans" or "Robinson Crusoe". Robinson Crusoe is another famous survival story written prior to this book, but it suffers from being a morality play with little action and long descriptive sections that are frankly boring. The Swiss Family Robinson is a much better book.

This is a exceptionally clean book also and is perfective for younger readers as well. Highly recommended.

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