Project Gutenberg 2014-09-18 Public domain in the USA. 561 Johnson, Owen 1878 1952 Johnson, Owen McMahon 09002772 The Eternal Boy: Being the Story of the Prodigious Hickey 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.) Reading ease score: 73.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Preparatory schools -- Fiction PS Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Novels Category: American Literature 418435 2025-07-19T03:59:12.657884 text/html 399477 2024-10-24T10:53:03 text/html 2798986 2025-07-19T03:59:20.342849 application/epub+zip 2801917 2025-07-19T03:59:14.263866 application/epub+zip 225787 2025-07-19T03:59:13.402842 application/epub+zip 2935895 2025-07-19T03:59:24.663824 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2891233 2025-07-19T03:59:19.376868 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 318037 2022-09-21T10:15:01.042617 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 358967 2025-07-19T03:59:11.253861 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 338964 2024-10-24T10:53:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17262 2025-07-19T03:59:24.801790 application/rdf+xml 19190 2025-07-19T03:59:13.507852 image/jpeg 3089 2025-07-19T03:59:13.455836 image/jpeg 2391908 2025-07-19T03:59:12.755851 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia