Tom Swift and His Airship; or, The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud
by Victor Appleton ("house" name), Howard R. Garis (ghostwriter)
Tom Swift [series 1, 1910-1941] (3)
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Tom Swift and His Airship is the third 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 show more adventure novels starring the genius boy inventor Tom Swift falls into the genre of "invention fiction" or "Edisonade".
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The story of Tom Swift's ingenuity, which prompts him to build an airship. When Tom tests the ship with a trial run, something goes wrong and there is a smash-up in mid-air!
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Howard R. Garis was born in 1873 in Binghamton, New York. A popular author and journalist, he wrote many mystery and adventure books for children, as well as newspaper and magazine stories. His very first Uncle Wiggily story was published in The Newark News in January 1910, and was an immediate success. For the next fifty years, a new Uncle show more Wiggily adventure appeared almost daily, and the series was nationally syndicated. Howard Garis died in 1962 show less
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- Canonical title
- Tom Swift and His Airship; or, The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud
- Original title
- Tom Swift and His Airship; or, The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud
- Alternate titles
- The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud
- Original publication date
- 1910
- People/Characters
- Tom Swift Sr.
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .A652 .T — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 195
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- Reviews
- 2
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- (3.72)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 47
- ASINs
- 14
