Victor Appleton and the Tom Swift Series

"Victor Appleton" was the pseudonym used by the authors of the Tom Swift series. According to Wikipedia, "Tom Swift is the young protagonist in several series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continues to the present. Each such series stars a hero named Tom Swift who is a genius inventor and whose breakthroughs in technology (especially transport technology) drive the plots of the novels, placing them in a genre sometimes called "invention fiction" or "Edisonade". Some of the later heroes might be considered the same character after a rebooted continuity, but in at least one series, Tom Swift was identified as a relative of the original Tom Swift. The first books were outlined by Edward Stratemeyer and his Stratemeyer Syndicate, written by ghostwriters and all credited to the house name of Victor Appleton."

This CD contains the first 25 books of the Tom Swift series, the only ones published in the US before 1923, and hence clearly in the public domain, plus 2 books of the Moving Picture Boys series, also attributed to "Appleton".

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

Table of Contents:

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Tom Swift

1. Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle; or, Fun and Adventure on the Road (1910)
2. Tom Swift and His Motor Boat; or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa
3. Tom Swift and His Airship; or, The Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud
4. Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat; or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure
5. Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout; or, The Speediest Car on the Road
6. Tom Swift and His Wireless Message; or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island 1911
7. Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers; or, The Secret of Phantom Mountain
8. Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice; or, The Wreck of the Airship
9. Tom Swift and His Sky Racer; or, The Quickest Flight on Record
10. Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures on Elephant Island
11. Tom Swift in the City of Gold; or, Marvelous Adventures Underground 1912
12. Tom Swift and His Air Glider; or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure
13. Tom Swift in Captivity; or, A Daring Escape by Airship
14. Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera; or, Thrilling Adventures While Taking Moving Pictures
15. Tom Swift and His Great Search Light; or, On the Border for Uncle Sam
16. Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon; or, The Longest Shots on Record 1913
17. Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone; or, The Picture That Saved a Fortune 1914
18. Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship; or, The Naval Terror of the Seas 1915
19. Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; or, The Hidden City of the Andes 1916
20. Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders; or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold 1917
21. Tom Swift and His War Tank; or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam 1918
22. Tom Swift and His Air Scout; or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky 1919
23. Tom Swift and His Undersea Search; or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic 1920
24. Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters; or, Battling with Flames in the Air 1921
25. Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails 1922

Moving Picture Boys

• Moving Picture Boys at Panama
• Moving Picture Boys at the War Front