White Magic (Classic Reprint): A Novel - Couverture souple

David Graham Phillips

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330732111 ISBN 13 : 9781330732113

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

In White Magic, a young American painter returns from Paris to his rural homeland and faces love, money, and the price of ambition. A stormy welcome awaits Roger Wade when he discovers a shackled future, romance with a wary heiress, and the fragile grip of kin and community on artistic dreams. The novel follows his rise, the pull of home, and the ways a brilliant talent must navigate family expectations and social rules to find his place.

The story blends vivid character study with a portrait of American life at a turning point. It explores how wealth, pride, and personal choices shape love and destiny, while examining what it means to pursue art in a world that measures success by status as much as by skill. Set against intimate domestic scenes and the larger currents of society, it asks what a person will risk for independence and recognition.

• A gifted painter returns home to build a career and confront his past.


• A romance tests personal freedom against family power and social expectations.


• Atmospheric scenes of small-town life mix with the ambitions and tensions of art and wealth.


• Character-driven drama that centers on choice, loyalty, and the price of independence.

Ideal for readers who enjoy psychologically rich, realism-driven fiction with love, ambition, and moral questions at its core.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition.Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from high school, Phillips entered Asbury College (now DePauw University) — following which he received a degree from Princeton University in 1887. After completing his education, Phillips worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving on to New York City where he was employed as a reporter for The Sun from 1890 to 1893, then columnist and editor with the New York World until 1902. In his spare time, he wrote a novel, The Great God Success, that was published in 1901. The royalty income enabled him to work as a freelance journalist while continuing to write fiction. Writing articles for various prominent magazines, he began to develop a reputation as a competent investigative journalist. Phillips' novels often commented on social issues of the day and frequently chronicled events based on his real-life journalistic experiences. He was considered a Progressive and for exposing corruption in the Senate he was labelled a muckraker. Phillips wrote an article in Cosmopolitan in March 1906, called "The Treason of the Senate," exposing campaign contributors being rewarded by certain members of the U. S. Senate. The story launched a scathing attack on Rhode Island senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and brought Phillips a great deal of national exposure. This and other similar articles helped lead to the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, initiating popular instead of state-legislature election of U. S. senators.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330732111
• ISBN 13: 9781330732113
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 429
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