White Magic (Classic Reprint): A Novel: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

David Graham Phillips

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330732111 ISBN 13: 9781330732113

Publisher: 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.

About this title

About the Author

Hearst, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, was editor-in-chief of the Hearst newspapers and an heir to the publishing empire established by his father until his death in 1993.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330732111
• ISBN 13: 9781330732113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 429