Johann David Wyss (1743–1818), Swiss author. His Swiss Family Robinson (1813), an internationally popular classic for children, relates the adventures of a shipwrecked family. It is based on Robinson Crusoe.
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From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.
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