{"product_id":"2940013401297","title":"ADVENTURES AND LETTERS OF RICHARD HARDING DAVIS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I.  THE EARLY DAYS\u003cbr\u003e    II.  COLLEGE DAYS\u003cbr\u003e   III.  FIRST NEWSPAPER EXPERIENCES\u003cbr\u003e    IV.  NEW YORK\u003cbr\u003e     V.  FIRST TRAVEL ARTICLES\u003cbr\u003e    VI.  THE MEDITERRANEAN AND PARIS\u003cbr\u003e   VII.  FIRST PLAYS\u003cbr\u003e  VIII.  CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA\u003cbr\u003e    IX.  MOSCOW, BUDAPEST, LONDON\u003cbr\u003e     X.  CAMPAIGNING IN CUBA, AND GREECE\u003cbr\u003e    XI.  THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR\u003cbr\u003e   XII.  THE BOER WAR\u003cbr\u003e  XIII.  THE SPANISH AND ENGLISH CORONATIONS\u003cbr\u003e   XIV.  THE JAPANESE-RUSSIAN WAR\u003cbr\u003e    XV.  MOUNT KISCO\u003cbr\u003e   XVI.  THE CONGO\u003cbr\u003e  XVII.  A LONDON WINTER\u003cbr\u003e XVIII.  MILITARY MANOEUVRES\u003cbr\u003e   XIX.  VERA CRUZ AND THE GREAT WAR\u003cbr\u003e    XX.  THE LAST DAYS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE EARLY DAYS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia on April 18, 1864, but,\u003cbr\u003eso far as memory serves me, his life and mine began together several\u003cbr\u003eyears later in the three-story brick house on South Twenty-first\u003cbr\u003eStreet, to which we had just moved.  For more than forty years this was\u003cbr\u003eour home in all that the word implies, and I do not believe that there\u003cbr\u003ewas ever a moment when it was not the predominating influence in\u003cbr\u003eRichard's life and in his work.  As I learned in later years, the house\u003cbr\u003ehad come into the possession of my father and mother after a period on\u003cbr\u003etheir part of hard endeavor and unusual sacrifice.  It was their\u003cbr\u003eambition to add to this home not only the comforts and the beautiful\u003cbr\u003einanimate things of life, but to create an atmosphere which would prove\u003cbr\u003ea constant help to those who lived under its roof--an inspiration to\u003cbr\u003etheir children that should endure so long as they lived.  At the time\u003cbr\u003eof my brother's death the fact was frequently commented upon that,\u003cbr\u003eunlike most literary folk, he had never known what it was to be poor\u003cbr\u003eand to suffer the pangs of hunger and failure.  That he never suffered\u003cbr\u003efrom the lack of a home was certainly as true as that in his work he\u003cbr\u003eknew but little of failure, for the first stories he wrote for the\u003cbr\u003emagazines brought him into a prominence and popularity that lasted\u003cbr\u003euntil the end.  But if Richard gained his success early in life and was\u003cbr\u003eblessed with a very lovely home to which he could always return, he was\u003cbr\u003enot brought up in a manner which in any way could be called lavish.\u003cbr\u003eLavish he may have been in later years, but if he was it was with the\u003cbr\u003emoney for which those who knew him best knew how very hard he had\u003cbr\u003eworked.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069971579120,"sku":"2940013401297","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013401297_p0.jpg?v=1763580732","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013401297","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}