The Deserter
Richard Harding Davis
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Description
Richard Harding Davis's The Deserter, printed by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1918 with an introduction by John T. McCutcheon, opens in Salonika. The American consul, the Standard Oil man, and the war correspondents form the American colony there, waiting to go to the front while the front comes rapidly toward them.
Among them are Uncle Jim, the veteran of many wars, oldest in experience and youngest in spirit. The Kid boasts he is the only boy reporter to jump from a City Hall assignment to a European war. The Kid scorns strategy writing: the man at home wants human interest, heart-to-heart talks about refugees and wounded, and how to pronounce Salonika. The third man is John, the special artist, whose front-page cartoons made him famous.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Richard Harding Davis |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |