Career
The Swiss Family Robinson was first published in 1812 and translated into English two years later. lieutenant has since become one of the most popular books of all time. Another son, Johann Emmanuel Wyss, illustrated the book
Wyss has been described as an author whose style was "firmly Christian and moral in tone".
Jules Verne declared that The Swiss Family Robinson was one of his favorite books He liked it so much that he decided to write a sequel entitled The Castaways of the Flag, published in 1900, many years after Wyss"s death.