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Tom Swift and his Motor-Boat (original 1910; edition 2005)

by Victor Appleton ("house" name)

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Tom Swift and His Motor Boat is the second book in the original Tom Swift series.

"Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading."

"These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good."

This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".

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Title:Tom Swift and his Motor-Boat
Authors:Victor Appleton
Info:Norwalk Connecticut, Easton Press
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Tags:Easton Press Tom Swift Classics, Leather

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Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat; or, The Rivals of Lake Carlop by Victor Appleton ("house" name) (1910)

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Published in 1910, this book is only the second Tom Swift book ever published. It dates to a time when motor- cars were a novelty and airplanes had not been invented. The original dust jacket blurb is worth quoting in full: "It is the purpose of these spirited tales to convey in a realistic way the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and to interest the boy of the present in the hope that he may be a factor in aiding the marvelous development that is coming in the future." That description -- written with boys of 100 years ago in mind -- indicates what the modern reader is in for.

Young Tom acquires a motorboat and has various adventures -- he has a boat race with a local bully, rescues a pretty girl, and captures criminals from the "Happy Harry gang" who have stolen inventions from his father's workshop. There is much description of how an outboard motor works, and how Tom adjusts the various features to obtain the maximum speed. Frankly, the action is awfully tame, the dialogue is wooden and stilted, and the characters are one- dimensional. Perhaps choices from the second generation of Tom Swift books might have attributes of interest to today's readers, but as something written for the great- great- grandfathers of today's boys, this one is of historical interest only. ( )
2 vote danielx | Sep 13, 2013 |
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Garis, Howard R.ghostwritermain authorall editionsconfirmed
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Classic Literature. Science Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. HTML:

Tom Swift and His Motor Boat is the second book in the original Tom Swift series.

"Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading."

"These spirited tales convey in a realistic way, the wonderful advances in land and sea locomotion and other successful inventions. Stories like these are impressed upon the memory and their reading is productive only of good."

This series of adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".

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