L. Frank Baum 2 hr 24 min read

Young Rob's tinkering with electricity accidentally summons the Demon of Electricity, who grants him three marvelous gifts, and hurls the boy into a whirl of adventure across a startled world.

L. Frank Baum's 1901 novel, by the creator of Oz, is a landmark early science-fiction tale for boys. Inventive, prophetic, charming. Read it for Baum's electrical fairy tale, a boy given wondrous gadgets by a genie of science, in a genial adventure that cheerfully anticipated the wonders of the coming century.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 24 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).