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A true story of a shipwrecked family with uncanny parallels to the tale of the Swiss Family Robinson
The name Swiss Family Robinson ... Crusoe,” the first “Swiss Family Robinson” was published in 1812 by Johann David Wyss: a German “dramatization of how a husband and wife rear their ...
What Eddie de Valera read: an English idyll and Robinson Crusoe
Éamon de Valera’s well-known visionary speech of 1943, with its references to “cosy homesteads”, “the romping of sturdy ...