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Trama e riassunto di Il tunnel attraverso l’aria
- 8 min di lettura
- 10 parts
- Audio a breve
A Texas farm boy reads Ezekiel as a blueprint for a four-winged airplane and bets a thousand dollars on cotton.
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Il tunnel attraverso l’aria in breve
Riassunto: 8 min di lettura
- Tempo di lettura
- Circa 7 h 40 min6 h 5 min fast, 9 h 5 min slow
- Durata
- 108.900 parole
- Livello nella biblioteca
- Medio longer sentences, everyday words
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1927by William D. Gann
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Il tunnel attraverso l’aria in short
The Tunnel Thru the Air follows Robert Gordon from a Texas cotton farm to Wall Street and then to a world at war. His mother gives him faith and a belief that he has work to do. Marie Stanton gives him love and a reason to make something of himself.
What Il tunnel attraverso l’aria is about
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.
A chi è rivolto. 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.
The story in 10 parts
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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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First love, jealousy, and the Garden of Love
At school in Texarkana, Robert meets Walter Kennelworth, the son of a wealthy lumberman, and the two become lifelong friends.
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Ezekiel, cycles, and a bet on cotton
Robert studies the Bible day and night and finds in Ezekiel what he takes to be the plan for a future airplane.
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Lindbergh flies and the elopement is planned
On May 21, 1927, Robert waits at a telegraph office until word comes that Charles Lindbergh has landed in Paris.
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Marie vanishes and the search begins
At eight the next morning Robert goes to Marie's berth and finds it empty.
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The Boy Wizard of Wall Street
In New York, Robert opens an office at 69 Wall Street.
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War in the air brings the nation to its knees
In April 1930 Japan declares war on the United States, and Spain and Mexico join in.
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Love is the power that drives him
The first theme is love as the greatest power.
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Prophecy, cycles, and a chosen nation
The second theme is the belief that the future can be read.
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How the story is told
The book is told as a chronicle with its own devices.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Robert Gordon A Texas farm boy who studies the Bible for the key to inventions and markets, and who wants to marry Marie and protect his country.
- Marie Stanton A wealthy young woman from Texarkana who believes in Robert, encourages him with letters and poems, and promises to wait with faith.
- Walter Kennelworth Robert's closest friend and a gifted chemist who wants to invent a way to end wars without killing.
- J.H. Kennelworth Walter's father, a Texarkana lumberman who backs Robert's forecasts and treats him like a second son.
- Amelia Gordon Robert's devout mother, who teaches him the Bible, defends his dreams and hopes he will become a peacemaker.
- Edna Quinton Robert's loyal secretary who becomes Walter's wife and a skilled inventor, trusted with the most secret machines.
- Henry Watson An aged Wall Street veteran who warns Robert about greed and tells the story of the sweetheart he lost.
- General Pearson A senior officer of the Aviation Corps who sees Robert's ability and stands by him when others doubt.
How it ends (spoiler)
The war ends with the world accepting peace on the terms Robert sets, with the nations gathered in New York and women asked to sign beside men. Robert asks for no reward except to see Marie again. At the peace conference, Walter reads Marie's old note aloud and says her promise has been fulfilled in every way except one, and that Robert's long faith will not be overlooked.
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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. 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.
Cita questa edizione
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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