Once Upon A Time - Davis, Richard Harding

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Résumé :
Book Excerpt: stumps of cigarettes. In a corner was a tin chop-box, whichEverett asked to have removed. It belonged, the landlord told him, tothe man who, two nights before, had occupied the cot and who had died init. Everett was anxious to learn of what he had died. Apparentlysurprised at the question, the Portuguese shrugged his shoulders.Who knows? he exclaimed. The next morning the English trader acrossthe street assured Everett there was no occasion for alarm. He didn'tdie of any disease, he explained. Somebody got at him from thebalcony, while he was in his cot, and knifed him.The English trader was a young man, a cockney, named Upsher. At home hehad been a steward on the Channel steamers. Everett made him his mostintimate friend. He had a black wife, who spent most of her day in afour-post bed, hung with lace curtains and blue ribbon, in which sheresembled a baby hippopotamus wallowing in a bank of white sand.At first the black woman was a shock to Everett, but after Upsherdismissed herRead More

Biographie:
Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist, fiction and drama writer who is best remembered for becoming the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and WWI. His writing considerably helped Theodore Roosevelt's political career. He also played a significant effect in the evolution of American magazines. His impact extended to the world of fashion, and he is credited with popularizing the clean-shaven style among males at the start of the twentieth century. Davis was born April 18, 1864, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His mother, Rebecca Harding Davis, was a well-known writer in her day. His father, Lemuel Clarke Davis, was a journalist who edited the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Davis attended Episcopal Academy when he was a young man. After an unsatisfactory year at Swarthmore College, Davis relocated to Lehigh University, where his uncle, H. Wilson Harding, was a professor. Davis' first book, a collection of short stories titled The Adventures of My Freshman (1884), was published while he was at Lehigh. Many of the tales had previously appeared in the student magazine, the Lehigh Burr. Davis attended Johns Hopkins University after transferring in 1885....

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Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright, renowned as one of the most prominent war correspondents of his time. Born in Philadelphia, he became known for his vivid reporting from conflicts such as the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and World War I. Davis also wrote novels, short stories, and plays, with works like Soldiers of Fortune gaining popular acclaim. His adventurous spirit and romanticized portrayals of heroism made him a cultural icon of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, influencing both literature and journalism....