Richard Harding Davis

The Red Cross Girl (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Short stories from a literary ancestor to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The title story is the quintessential Harding Davis romance of superior beings: Sister Anne isn't really a Red Cross girl but in fact a wealthy heiress with an English lordfor a suitor; Sam Ward is a reporter (like Davis), the best one in New York of course, wide-shouldered and 'almost illegally good-looking.'

'The Grand Cross of the Crescent' is a wonderfully satisfying feel-good story about a crusty old professor who fails the son of the college's leading patron and loses his job as a result. Through bribery, publicity and a game of cards with a Turkish prince the son gets the don his job back, a rise, and international acclaim to boot!

'The Invasion of England' happened in 1911 and began because 'some week-end guest of the East Cliff Hotel left a copy of “The Riddle of the Sands” in the coffee-room.' It failed because another invasion took place on the same night. An infectious student rag comedy.

In 'Blood Will Tell' the unlikely hero David Greene went 'to bed a timid, near-sighted, underpaid salesman without a relative in the world, except a married sister in Bordentown, and he awoke to find he was a direct descendant of “Neck or Nothing” Greene, a revolutionary hero, a friend of Washington.' All very well, until his fiancée expects him to act up to his heroic ancestry.

'The Sailorman' is another romance between a gilded couple, 'The Naked Man' a fun escaped convict story. On a boat trip across the Atlantic a doctor becomes acquainted with a swindler as pathetic as he is brazen in 'The Card-Sharp.'

At one point in 'The Mind Reader' a reporter gets good advice that the author himself may have had when he started out: 'if you are doomed to write only of what you see, then the best thing for you to do is to see as many things as possible.' He does better, he reads minds.

Last but not least 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' is a virtual rewrite of the classic yarn. After being inspired by a lecture from a war correspondent warning about German spies, a young man is determined to prove that 'a boy scout with badges on his sleeve for “stalking” and “path-finding,” not to boast of others for “gardening” and “cooking,” can outwit any spy.'

Contents    
The Red Cross girl -- The Grand Cross of the Crescent -- The invasion of England -- Blood will tell -- The sailorman -- The mind reader -- The naked man -- The boy who cried wolf -- The card-sharp.
 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: iOnlineShopping.com
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788834196045
• Artikelnr.: 59109105

Autorenporträt

American journalist and author of both fiction and drama, Richard Harding Davis. He covered the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War as the first American war reporter. Theodore Roosevelt's political career benefited immensely from his literature. At the start of the 20th century, he is credited for popularizing the clean-shaven image among males. On April 18, 1864, Davis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lemuel Clarke Davis, his father, served as editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Davis went to Swarthmore College and the Episcopal Academy as a young man. Davis saw Matanzas, Cuba, being shelled as part of the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. His tale garnered media attention, but as a result, the Navy forbade journalists from boarding any American military vessel for the remainder of the conflict. After being detained by the Germans as a spy and eventually released, Davis covered the Salonika front during the First World War. Davis married twice, first to the artist Cecil Clark in 1899 and then to the actress and vaudeville performer Bessy McCoy after their divorce in 1912. On April 11, 1916, Davis suffered a heart attack while talking on the phone. Bessie McCoy, his wife, would pass away at the age of 42 in 1931 from intestinal issues.