Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land
by Victor Appleton ("house" name), Howard R. Garis (ghostwriter)
Tom Swift [series 1, 1910-1941] (10)
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Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle is the tenth 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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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 Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land
- Original title
- Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land
- Original publication date
- 1911
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 808.8387 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Collections of fiction Genre fiction Adventure fiction
- LCC
- PZ7 .A653 .A675 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 24
- ASINs
- 10
