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Description
A Swiss family is shipwrecked on a tropical island, and must survive with what they can salvage from their ship, as well as the natural bounty of the island. The father leads his four sons on a series of adventures that teach important lessons in moral values, husbandry and natural history.
How the series evolves
Books in this Series
Schweizerische Robinson
A Swiss family is shipwrecked on a tropical island, and must survive with what they can salvage from their ship, as well as the natural bounty of the island. The father leads his four sons on a series of adventures that teach important lessons in moral values, husbandry and natural history.
Selected Tales
Contains 21 tales: Ambitious Guest Artist of the Beautiful Birth-Mark Celestial Railroad Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Egotism; or the Bosom Serpent Endicott and the Red Cross Ethan Brand Feathertop: a Moralized Legend Gray Champion Great Carbuncle Legends of the Province House Maypole of Merry Mount Minister's Black Veil Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe My Kinsman, Major Molineux Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure Rappaccini's Daughter Roger Malvin's Burial Wakefield [Young Goodman Brown](
Giant
A large green giant and a small boy meet in the middle of a forest where the giant relates the tale of his life to the boy.
Snow-White and other tales
Seventy-five tales collected from "the folk" by the Grimm brothers in the nineteenth century.