Books with author Richard Harding Davis

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Marie Gessler, known as Marie Chaumontel, Jeanne d'Avrechy, the Countess d'Aurillac, was German. Her father, who served through the Franco-Prussian War, was a German spy. It was from her mother she learned to speak French sufficiently well to satisfy even an Academician and, among Parisians, to pass as one. Both her parents were dead. Before they departed, knowing they could leave their daughter nothing save their debts, they had had her trained as a nurse. But when they were gone, Marie in the Berlin hospitals played politics, intrigued, indiscriminately misused the appealing, violet eyes. There was a scandal; several scandals.

When this story first appeared, the writer received letters of two kinds, one asking a question and the other making a statement. The question was, whether there was any foundation of truth in the story; the statement challenged him to say that there was. The letters seemed to show that a large proportion of readers prefer their dose of fiction with a sweetening of fact, This is written to furnish that condiment, and to answer the question and the statement...

This volume contains Richard Harding Davis’s 1896 collection of short stories, "Stories for Boys". This delightful and profusely illustrated collection is timeless, and will be enjoyed as much by modern children as it was when first published. The stories contained herein include: “The Reporter who Made Himself King”, “Midsummer Pirates”, “Richard Carr’s Baby”, “The Great Tri-Club Tennis Tournament”, “The Jump at Corey’s Slip”, “The Van Bibber Baseball club”, and “The Story of a Jockey”. Richard Harding Davis (1864 - 1916) was a journalist and author primarily remembered as the first American war correspondent to write about the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Carters had married in haste and refused to repent at leisure. So blindly were they in love, that they considered their marriage their greatest asset. The rest of the world, as represented by mutual friends, considered it the only thing that could be urged against either of them. While single, each had been popular. As a bachelor, young "Champ" Carter had filled his modest place acceptably. Hostesses sought him for dinners and week-end parties, men of his own years, for golf and tennis, and young girls liked him because when he talked to one of them he never talked of himself, or let his eyes wander toward any other girl. He had been brought up by a rich father in an expensive way, and the rich father had then died leaving Champneys alone in the world, with no money, and with even a few of his father's debts. These debts of honor the son, ever since leaving Yale, had been paying off. It had kept him very poor, for Carter had elected to live by his pen, and, though he wrote very carefully and slowly, the editors of the magazines had been equally careful and slow in accepting what he wrote.

This is Richard Hardin Davis’s 1902 work, "Captain Macklin: His Memoirs". Upon his return to the US, a young Macklin must decide whether to settle down or continue with a life of adventure and mischief. This interesting, exciting, and often hilarious story is highly recommended for those looking for a thoroughly entertaining read, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Davis’s work. Richard Harding Davis (1864 - 1916) was an American journalist and author. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Richard Harding Davis was an American writer and journalist. Davis was also well known for being the first American war correspondent to cover many wars including the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I. Davis's writing also played a critical role in helping the political career of Theodore Roosevelt. Real Soldiers of Fortune is a book consisting of short biographies of the following people: Henry Maciver, James Harden-Hickey, Winston Churchill (his early life), Philo Norton McGiffin, General William Walker, and Frederick Russell Burnham.