Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, Victor Appleton
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Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout

Author: Victor Appleton

Narrator: John Rayburn

Unabridged: 4 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/10/2021

Synopsis

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 one hundred 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 grownup 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.

About Victor Appleton

Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books.

About John Rayburn

John Rayburn is a veteran of sixty-two years in broadcasting. He served as a news/sports anchor and show host, and his TV newscast achieved the largest Share of Audience figures of any major-market TV newscast in the nation. John is a member of a Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on August 16, 2024

This was the fifth novel in the original Tom Swift series. It was written by Howard Garis for the Stratemeyer Syndicate and was published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1910 under the house pseudonym Victor Appleton. Tom was a young man who was following in his father's footsteps as an inventor. They live i......more

Goodreads review by Nikky3 on May 02, 2019

Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout! In this adventure our hero enters an electric car race! Will Tom escape the kidnappers? Will he live through his electrocution? Will his girlfriend be there to see him win the race?!?!? (Seriously though this one was bad)......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on August 20, 2019

After spending lots of time reading boy books written in the mid to late 1800s, I've finally continued my time travel experience to the early 1900s. The Tom Swift series is one of the earliest books in the Stratemeyer Syndicate (think The Bobbsey Twins Series, Hardy Boys Complete Series Set Books 1-......more

Goodreads review by Rhonda on August 09, 2021

I do like the speculative science in these. It is the best part of the books, especially when looked at from over 100 years later. Electric cars are only just becoming a staple and here they are in 1910 being predicted to be fast, flashy, stable and far better than most gasoline engine cars. Rather......more

Goodreads review by Alger on May 28, 2024

Totally middle of the road (snerk) Tom Swift. Because this is a formula novel in a long running series there isn't much that is new here. Because it's early in the series his enemies include another teenager. As always, the majority of the chapters pivot around some manufactured, low risk, tension.......more

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