Project Gutenberg 2014-09-18 Public domain in the USA. 87 Johnson, Owen 1878 1952 Johnson, Owen McMahon 09002772 The Eternal Boy: Being the Story of the Prodigious Hickey Reading ease score: 73.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by David Edwards, Matthias Grammel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Eternal Boy: Being the Story of the Prodigious Hickey" by Owen Johnson is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the character of William Orville Hicks, commonly known as Hickey, portrayed as both a clever and mischievous boy navigating the challenges of school life. The narrative explores themes of rebellion, the struggles for acceptance, and the social dynamics among boys in an academic setting. At the start of the book, we are introduced to Hickey in a school declamation class, where he disrupts and mocks the speaker, an act that forms the core of his character as someone who revels in mischief. After a series of comedic interactions with his classmates and the teacher, we see Hickey dealing with the social injustices of being accused by authority figures, which fosters feelings of disillusionment. His confident and rebellious nature is further revealed through his schemes to challenge the strict regulations of the school and his influence over his peers, laying the groundwork for an engaging story about youthful defiance and camaraderie in a school environment. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Preparatory schools -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Teaching & Education Browsing: Fiction 418236 418297 2024-10-19T15:02:27.342028 2023-09-20T10:19:31.422869 text/html text/html 419675 2014-09-18T02:00:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 2386114 2014-09-18T02:00:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 2798905 2024-10-19T15:02:36.356989 application/epub+zip 2801928 2024-10-19T15:02:29.214013 application/epub+zip 225804 2024-10-19T15:02:28.175009 application/epub+zip 2936095 2024-10-19T15:02:41.291967 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2891135 2024-10-19T15:02:35.063019 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 318037 2022-09-21T10:15:01.042617 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 359137 358929 2024-10-19T15:02:25.509057 2023-09-20T10:19:29.862876 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 359008 2014-09-18T02:00:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 139193 2014-09-18T02:00:20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 359006 2014-09-18T02:00:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 139142 2014-09-18T02:00:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21561 2024-10-19T15:02:41.588947 application/rdf+xml 19190 2024-10-19T15:02:28.291009 image/jpeg 3089 2024-10-19T15:02:28.233015 image/jpeg 2391857 2024-10-19T15:02:27.443026 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia