Author:Richard Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis
(1864–1916)

popular American writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War

Richard Harding Davis

Works

Novels

Individual short stories

  • The Nature Faker (c. 1898)
  • The Lion and the Unicorn (1899)
  • The Log of the "Jolly Polly" (c. 1911)
  • The Lost House (c. 1911)
  • My Buried Treasure (c. 1911)
  • The Consul (1911)
  • The Boy Scout (1914) (external scan)
  • The Man Who Could Not Lose (1916)
  • The Deserter (1917) (external scan)

Short story collections

  • The Exiles and Other Stories (1894)
    • The Exiles
    • The Boy Orator of Zepata City
    • The Other Woman
    • On the Fever Ship
    • The Lion and the Unicorn
    • The Last Ride Together
    • Miss Delamare's Understudy
    • The Reporter Who Made Himself King
  • Cinderella and Other Stories (1896)
    • Cinderella (as "Cinderella" in Scribner's Magazine, 1896)
    • Miss Delamar's Understudy
    • The Editor's Story
    • An Assisted Emigrant
    • The Reporter Who Made Himself King
  • The Lion and the Unicorn (1904) (external scan)
    • The Lion and the Unicorn
    • Cinderella
    • Miss Delamar's Understudy
    • On the Fever Ship
    • The Man with One Talent
    • The Vagrant
    • The Last Ride Together
    • The Editor's Story
    • An Assisted Emigrant
  • Somewhere in France (collection) (1915) (external scan)
    • Somewhere in France
    • Playing Dead
    • The Card-Sharp
    • Billy and the Big Stick
    • The Boy Scout
    • The Frame Up

Plays

  • Ranson’s Folly (1904)
  • The Dictator (1904)
  • Miss Civilisation (1904)
  • The Littlest Girl (1898)

Non-fiction works

  • The West from a Car Window (1892)
  • Our English Cousins (1894)
  • The Rulers of the Mediterranean (1894)
  • About Paris (1895)
  • Three Gringos in Central America and Venezuela (1896)
  • Cuba in War Time (1897)
  • A Year From a Reporter’s Note-Book (1898)
  • The Cuban & Porto Rican Campaigns (1899)
  • With Both Armies (1900)
  • Real Soldiers of Fortune (1906)
  • The Congo and coasts of Africa (1907)
  • Notes of a War Correspondent (1910)
  • With the Allies (1914)
  • With the French in France and Salonika (1916)

Works from magazines

Non-fiction

  • "Broadway" in Scribner's Magazine, 1891
  • "Going to the Play in London" in Collier's Oct 23, 1909
  • "On a Certain Ingratitude in Critics" in Collier's, Oct 24, 1908
  • "The Plattsburg Idea" in Collier's, Oct 9, 1915
  • '"Playing" the Drama' in Collier's, Mar 20, 1909
  • "Rheims During the Bombardment" in Scribner's Magazine, 1915

Other

Works about Davis

Dedicated to Davis

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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