Luis Senarens 2 hr 32 min read

Boy-genius inventor Frank Reade, Jr. takes his marvelous submarine into the Yucatan Channel, battling villains and undersea perils in search of a sunken isthmus beneath the waves.

Luis Senarens's 1896 dime novel is a rousing juvenile invention-adventure from the beloved Frank Reade series. Fast, colorful, of its era. Read it for a classic Edisonade, a young inventor and his wonderful machine braving danger in exotic waters, a vivid slice of the boys' science-adventure fiction that thrilled a generation.

In its time

Published in 1896, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 32 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).