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Ranson's Folly by Richard Harding Davis.
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ILLUSTRATIONS
“Throw up your hands,” he commanded.
Ranson faced the door, spinning the revolver around
his fourth finger.
“I suppose I’m the ugliest bull-dog in
America”....
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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 in...
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Richard Harding Davis is principally remembered as a popular romancer of the 1890s and early 1900s. The bulk of his writing was designed to please and titillate the popular readership, and, until his ...
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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...
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Richard Harding Davis once said that "There is no training for a novelist as thorough as that received in the local room of a daily newspaper." Davis served just such an apprenticeship at newspapers i...
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Richard Harding Davis, managing editor of Harper's Weekly from 1890 to 1893 and for all his writing career a steady contributor to the evolving literature of the American magazine, was the first nativ...
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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...
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Ranson's Folly
Richard Harding Davis
Richard Harding Davis
