The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Swiss Family Robinson, The

SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, The, a famous romance by J. R. Wyss, which was begun by his father and published as &lsquo;Der Sweizerische Robinson.&rsquo; It was translated into French and afterward into English. It is an entertaining tale written for young people, after the style of &lsquo;Robinson Crusoe,&rsquo; from which the author is supposed to have derived many of his ideas, and has been cleverly parodied by Owen Wister in &lsquo;The New Swiss Family Robinson&rsquo; (1882.)