The complete online text of Cinderella by Richard Harding Davis.

The American journalist Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was also a fiction writer and dramatist whose swashbuckling adventures were popular with the American public. Richard Harding Davis was born into a well-to-do and rather pious Episcopalian family...

Richard Harding Davis may be better remembered in late-twentieth-century America for being the son of novelist Rebecca Harding Davis than he is for his own literary accomplishments. In late-nineteenth-century America, however, Davis epitomized the Americ...

Richard Harding Davis was one of the most colorful, daring, and attractive figures in journalism in the late 1800s and early 1900s; he was also highly competent, honest, and dependable. Because of his dashing life-style, which seemed never to impede his...

Previous page Buttons wears hot pink satin sailor suit by Jean Paul Gaultier, from a selection at Galerie Gaultier, 171 Draycott Avenue, London SW3 Cinderella wears white T-shirt (customised), pounds 4.75, from John Lewis, Oxford Street, London W1; second-hand Levi jeans, about pounds 42.50,...

It is a tale passed down through the ages, a prophetic conjuring of man's most basic instincts, a dreamy lullaby in some retellings, a nightmare in others. In written form Cinderella dates back to the ninth century--by 1893, Marian R. Cox had catalogued...

It’s raining Cinderellas at the Met—11 performances in a row of James Kudelka’s version, which was born in Toronto two years ago. (Kudelka was then artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada; now he’s its resident choreographer.) Presumably, A.B.T. thinks that Cinderella—any Cinderella—will sell...

It’s raining Cinderella s at the Met—11 performances in a row of James Kudelka’s version, which was born in Toronto two years ago. (Kudelka was then artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada; now he’s its resident choreographer.) Presumably, A.B.T. thinks that Cinderella—any Cinderella—will...