Renowned American journalist Richard Harding Davis helped define the genre of front-line reporting with his first-hand accounts of battlefield action in the Spanish-American war. Later, Davis went on to cover several additional conflicts in his inimitable style. Upon his return to the United States, he worked as a newspaper columnist for several prominent publications, where he tackled many of the toughest social issues of the day. This fascinating volume follows Davis's life on and off the battlefield.
Though journalist Richard Harding Davis was best known for his battlefield reports from the front lines of a number of conflicts, he also produced many amusing short stories over the course of his career. The centerpiece of this collection is "Cinderella," which uses the basic elements of the classic fairy tale and updates them to include the would-be debutante's take on her own transformation.
Richard Harding Davis' career began in journalism, where he made his name as a daring front-line correspondent in several wars and conflicts. Later, he would translate his battlefield experience into a number of fiction and nonfiction books. Real Soldiers of Fortune presents brief biographies detailing the lives and martial triumphs of luminaries such as Captain Philo McGiffen and the young Winston Churchill.
Self-made man Robert Clay has spent much of his adult life in single-minded pursuit of one goal: winning the hand of the beautiful heiress Alice Langham, whom Clay has worshipped from afar for quite some time. The only catch is that Alice is already being courted by a bevy of wealthy men from affluent families. Does Clay stand a chance against this stiff competition?
Crime journalist Austin Ford is used to playing the role of amateur sleuth as part of his profession, but when a fellow passenger on a ship bound for England finds out that her husband has gone missing, she implores Ford to put his skills to work to solve a case that might just be of life-or-death importance.
American author Richard Harding Davis began his career as a writer of short stories, but he first gained international acclaim as a daring war correspondent whose front-line dispatches left audiences breathless. In this eclectic collection, Harding Davis returns to his first literary love, the short story.
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