Project Gutenberg
2025-03-10
Public domain in the USA.
1773
Matson, Norman
1893
1965
Matson, Norman H.
Matson, Norman Häghejm
Matson, Norman Haghejm
Matson, Norman Highejm
Matson, Norman Hughejm
26007906
Flecker's magic
$aNew York :$bBoni & Liveright, $c1926.
Reading ease score: 85.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Hannah Wilson, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
"Flecker's Magic" by Norman Matson is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around Spike Flecker, a struggling painter in Paris, who grapples with despair as he faces artistic failure, a lack of support from family, and feelings of loneliness. As he navigates the murky waters of his life, he encounters a mysterious girl who claims to be a witch, offering him the ability to grant wishes, setting the stage for a tale filled with magic and self-discovery. The opening of the novel introduces Spike Flecker as he wanders through a dreary Parisian day, weighed down by his lack of success and his unfulfilled dreams. Cold and miserable, he reflects on his failures in art and life, contemplating self-harm. His thoughts are interrupted by a mysterious girl, who introduces herself as a witch and offers him a chance to wish for anything he desires. This encounter ignites the story, leading Spike to wrestle with the implications of his desires and the nature of happiness as he has just a few days to decide what he truly wants in life. The intriguing blend of his artistic aspirations, existential musings, and the allure of magic draws readers into Flecker's world of enchanting possibilities. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.301818&seq=9
20240417103708matson
1926
us
en
Fantasy fiction
Wishes -- Fiction
Paris (France) -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Witches -- Fiction
Americans -- France -- Fiction
Painters -- Fiction
PS
Text
Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
Browsing: Fiction
267082
2025-03-10T22:00:46.348998
text/html
241845
2025-03-10T20:58:16
text/html
407780
2025-03-10T22:01:03.495927
application/epub+zip
408175
2025-03-10T22:00:54.380946
application/epub+zip
244884
2025-03-10T22:00:48.991979
application/epub+zip
395166
2025-03-10T22:01:12.441853
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
358293
2025-03-10T22:01:03.078919
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
242593
2025-03-10T22:00:45.555980
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
222716
2025-03-10T20:58:16
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
3953
2025-03-10T22:01:12.586856
application/rdf+xml
12777
2025-03-10T22:00:54.048938
image/jpeg
2292
2025-03-10T22:00:53.955964
image/jpeg
309318
2025-03-10T22:00:46.377987
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
fr.wikipedia