Victor Appleton 2 hr 59 min read

Tom Swift builds the speediest electric car on the road, racing to win a great prize, and to save an imperiled bank, while his rival Andy Foger schemes against him.

Victor Appleton's 1910 novel is a rousing entry in the beloved Tom Swift juvenile series. Fast, wholesome, inventive. Read it for a classic boys' invention-adventure, a record-setting electric runabout, a thrilling road race, and a bank rescue, in the brisk, optimistic style that made Tom Swift a fixture of early-twentieth-century American juvenile fiction and a byword for young ingenuity.

In its time

Published in 1910, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 59 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).