Project Gutenberg 2006-05-12 Public domain in the USA. 70 Davis, Richard Harding 1864 1916 A Charmed Life Produced by Don Lainson; David Widger "A Charmed Life" by Richard Harding Davis is a romantic narrative set in the late 19th century, during the backdrop of the Spanish-American War. The story centers on a young newspaper correspondent named Chesterton and his passionate relationship with a woman named Miss Armitage, exploring themes of love, duty, and the intertwining of personal and national conflicts. The narrative follows Chesterton as he grapples with the conflicting feelings of love and duty when he is called to cover the war. Miss Armitage expresses her fear for his safety, insisting that his life now belongs to her, and she believes her love can protect him from harm. As the war unfolds, Chesterton enjoys an unusual string of good luck, encountering danger yet emerging unscathed, which he attributes to the charm of Miss Armitage's love. Ultimately, despite the chaos of war and the anxieties it brings, he rushes home out of homesickness, realizing that peace has been declared while he was unaware, reinforcing the notion that love can transcend fear and conflict. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction Short stories PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 56675 56684 2024-09-01T11:06:36.153885 2023-10-01T10:05:09.268491 text/html text/html 54217 2021-01-27T17:41:15 text/html; charset=utf-8 19723 2021-01-27T17:41:15 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 66986 2024-09-01T11:06:39.303848 application/epub+zip 66014 2024-09-01T11:06:37.353839 application/epub+zip 66013 2024-09-01T11:06:36.601840 application/epub+zip 128222 2024-09-01T11:06:40.839818 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 121639 2024-09-01T11:06:38.812833 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 121804 2022-09-01T12:29:37.633135 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 46435 46415 2024-09-01T11:06:35.960888 2023-10-01T10:05:09.091535 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 46940 2016-09-26T11:13:36 text/plain; charset=utf-8 18376 2016-09-26T11:17:06 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 46345 2006-05-12T09:19:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18259 2006-05-12T09:19:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19924 2024-09-01T11:06:40.969817 application/rdf+xml 11547 2024-09-01T11:06:36.933884 image/jpeg 3291 2024-09-01T11:06:36.767853 image/jpeg 66804 2024-09-01T11:06:36.160867 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia