Résumé
Résumé de Le Tunnel à travers les airs
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You will enjoy this book if you like romance and invention side by side, letters and poems woven into a story, and scripture read as prophecy.
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Picture a boy in Texas around 1917 pedaling a bicycle with cedar wheels and automobile inner tubes across a lake. He wants to ride on water now and to meet the Lord in the air someday. That boy is Robert Gordon, and he believes the Bible holds a plan for every machine and every market.
The Tunnel Thru the Air is a novel by William D. Gann, dated May 1927.
Dans ce résumé
- 1A Texas farm boy raised on scriptureFree
- 2First love, jealousy, and the Garden of Love
- 3Ezekiel, cycles, and a bet on cotton
- 4Lindbergh flies and the elopement is planned
- 5Marie vanishes and the search begins
- 6The Boy Wizard of Wall Street
- 7War in the air brings the nation to its knees
- 8Love is the power that drives him
- 9Prophecy, cycles, and a chosen nation
- 10How the story is told
Point clé 1 sur 10
A Texas farm boy raised on scripture
Robert Gordon is born late on Saturday night, June 9, 1906, in a farmhouse near Texarkana. His mother, Amelia, is a devoted student of the Bible and hopes he will become a preacher. His father, Calvin, grows cotton on the Red River bottomlands.
A sermon describes believers rising through clouds to join the Lord, and Robert wonders for months what vehicle could carry them. He tells his mother he wants to meet the Lord in the air, and she says he will someday.
Robert will not work the cotton fields, and his brother Ralph mocks him as Fool Bobbie. Instead he borrows his father's tools and builds a bicycle meant for water. His mother suggests thin cedar boards, and the wheels leak and sink him, so he fills them with automobile inner tubes and rides across the lake.
His father calls his dream of a white-winged bird across the ocean pipe dreams, but his mother treats it as a promise. A mother's faith and a boy's stubbornness set the course of his life.
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About 7 h 50 min to read.About this edition
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- LengthAbout 119,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 7 h 55 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesAnglais
Questions about Le Tunnel à travers les airs
What is The Tunnel Thru the Air about?
It follows Robert Gordon, a Texas farm boy who studies the Bible for the secrets of cycles and inventions. It combines his love for Marie Stanton, his market fortune, his inventions and a future war in the air.
Who wrote The Tunnel Thru the Air and when?
The novel is by William D. Gann, whose preface bears the date May 9, 1927. The preface bears the date May 9, 1927, and Gann is the novel's author. Gann is known for his writing on markets and cycles, and the novel shows these interests in a story.
What is the tunnel in the title?
The tunnel is an invention Robert plans in wartime. It is a passage created in the air by electric currents and a vacuum, so that planes can pass unseen and enemy aircraft can be trapped.
Is The Tunnel Thru the Air a true story?
No, it is a novel, though the preface says it is based on events that have happened or will happen. It uses real details such as Lindbergh's flight, the 1927 floods and actual cotton markets.
What is the main message of the book?
The book says that love, faith and patience can guide a life, and that the Bible contains laws that can be studied. It also argues for preparing a nation and for choosing mercy over cruelty.
Cite this edition
Gann, William D. The Tunnel Thru the Air. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-tunnel-thru-the-air.
Gann, W. D. (2026). The tunnel thru the air. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-tunnel-thru-the-air (Original work published 1927)
Gann, William D. The Tunnel Thru the Air. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-tunnel-thru-the-air.
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