White Lightning
Unknown · 1923
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Description
White Lightning is a novel by Edwin Herbert Lewis, issued at Chicago in 1923. Covici-McGee published the book. A verse from The Ballad of Ryerson serves as motto. It speaks of thunderbolts locked in ore and shore. The first chapter is titled Hydrogen. An auburn-haired boy of twelve stands at a smithy door. Two girls hang on his arms, forgotten for the moment. He watches the smith sprinkle water on the fire.
The boy concludes that water will burn. Most lads would miss that point, the narrator says. The scene is set in Chicago in 1905. The boy is Marvin Mahan, son of a mining engineer. His father is oftener away than at home. Lewis builds his tale on a boy's bent for science. Wonder at the forge opens a life of inquiry. The novel joins a city childhood to big industry.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1923 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 448 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |