Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout (1910) - Victor Appleton

Category: Action, Adventure, Children, Classic
Language: English
Keywords: Tom Swift

Written by Victor Appleton
Read by John Rayburn
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
The Tom Swift Original Series, Book 5
By: Victor Appleton
Narrated by: John Rayburn
Series: Tom Swift, Book 5
Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 10-08-2021
Language: English
Publisher: John D. Rayburn

Three very successful series of stories aimed at children and teens were created by a man who had a book-packaging house and didn’t want to cause confusion. So none of the stories ever had his name on them. Instead, Edward Stratemeyer hired several writers and provided them with story ideas that were then published under the pseudonym Victor Appleton. They were tales of the adventures of a teenager named Tom Swift. He was portrayed as a youngster who didn’t have a lot of formal education but was inventive and science-minded. This led to more than 100 volumes with a variety of broad-ranging adventures and creative ideas placing emphasis on invention, science, and technology.

Stratemeyer later came up with successful stories about the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. It is said the fertile Stratemeyer imagination often found him jotting down a short page of notes involving plots and assigning a stable of about a half-dozen writers to fill in the blanks. The Hardy Boys were amateur detectives often able to solve various cases when solutions eluded grown-up professionals. First appearance of the female counterpart Nancy Drew series first appeared in 1930 and ran for nearly three-quarters of a century. We listen now to Tom Swift with one of his top inventions.

Public Domain (P)2021 John D. Rayburn

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