Richard Davis Harding: 177 books

This is a collection of short stories that covers a wide range of subjects. The author has subtly expressed his opinions on various subjects through characters that are beautifully drawn. An engrossing work where each tale presents a different outlook of life.

Marie Gessler, known as Marie Chaumontel, Jeanne d'Avrechy, the Countess d'Aurillac, was German. Her father, who served through the Franco-Prussian War, was a German spy. It was from her mother she learned to speak French sufficiently well to satisfy even an Academician and, among Parisians, to pass...

When Ainsley first moved to Lone Lake Farm all of his friends asked him the same question. They wanted to know, if the farmer who sold it to him had abandoned it as worthless, how one of the idle rich, who could not distinguish a plough from a harrow, hoped to make it pay? His answer was that he had...

For over forty years, in one part of the world or another, old man Marshall had, served his country as a United States consul. He had been appointed by Lincoln. For a quarter of a century that fact was his distinction. It was now his epitaph. But in former years, as each new administration succeeded...

I had made up my mind that when my vacation came I would spend it seeking adventures. I have always wished for adventures, but, though I am old enough— I was twenty-five last October— and have always gone half-way to meet them, adventures avoid me. Kinney says it is my fault. He holds that if you want adventures you must go after them.

THE COASTERS No matter how often one sets out, "for to admire, and for to see, for to behold this world so wide," he never quite gets over being surprised at the erratic manner in which "civilization" distributes itself; at the way it ignores one spot upon the earth's surface, and upon another, several...

This narrative dwells on the responsibility and duty of journalism. While idealism struggle for truth and enthusiasm are integral qualities for this job one should also realize the extent of influence a journalist wields. Credibility and authenticity are emphasized as the basic principles. The havoc...

A very readable and entertaining tale of a Lion and a Unicorn who are placed above the door of a shop, and keep an eye on things and people as they pass by.  This is a great story for adults as well as children.  Don't miss it.

Newspapers and reporters, theater and society people, the wealthy, active, and idle—Manhattan man-about-town Cortlandt Van Bibber seems to be at the center of it all in this Wodehousian 1917 edition of interconnected short stories. Includes “Her First Appearance,” “Van Bibber’s Man-servant,” “Mr. Travers’s First Hunt,” and many more.

Vera the Medium is a novella about a young lady who does not fit in, and must rely on her strong spirit to overcome the cruelties of the world. It is coupled with the popular play Miss Civilization, which is a one act comedy about a girl who must use her wits against three burglars trying to rob her home.