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100 1 _aJohnson, Owen,
_d1878-1952
245 1 4 _aThe Eternal Boy: Being the Story of the Prodigious Hickey
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2014-09-18
508 _aProduced 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)
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aPreparatory schools -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46892
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