Cabbages and KingsA. L. Burt Company, 1904 - 312 pagine O. Henry wove together several stories into this highly episodic narrative. Set in the fictional country of Coralio in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution lurks in every impoverished back alley, this novel offers cutting satire of contemporary politics and prejudices. Yet, in the end, lovers are reunited, poverty obliterated, and sentiment satisfied. |
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Pagina 131
... Don Sabas Placido , the newly con- firmed Minister of War . The president had requested a convention of his cabinet for the discussion of questions politic and for the transaction of certain routine matters of state . The session had ...
... Don Sabas Placido , the newly con- firmed Minister of War . The president had requested a convention of his cabinet for the discussion of questions politic and for the transaction of certain routine matters of state . The session had ...
Pagina 132
... Don Sabas 8 man at once merry , learned , whimsical and audacious that he should have dis- turbed the 132 Cabbages and Kings.
... Don Sabas 8 man at once merry , learned , whimsical and audacious that he should have dis- turbed the 132 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 135
... Don Sabas ' little pleasantry arrived in the form of the imposing and preposterous commission , the collector smiled . He had not ex- pected such prompt and overwhelming response to his recommendation . He despatched a muchacho at once ...
... Don Sabas ' little pleasantry arrived in the form of the imposing and preposterous commission , the collector smiled . He had not ex- pected such prompt and overwhelming response to his recommendation . He despatched a muchacho at once ...
Pagina 144
... Don Sabas Placido . A traveller , a soldier , a poet , a scientist , a statesman and a connoisseur the wonder was that he could content himself with the petty , remote life of his native country . " It is a whim of Placido's , " said a ...
... Don Sabas Placido . A traveller , a soldier , a poet , a scientist , a statesman and a connoisseur the wonder was that he could content himself with the petty , remote life of his native country . " It is a whim of Placido's , " said a ...
Pagina 153
... Sabas Placido , traitor to your country . With your face to a wall . So , you will die . I am the admiral , and I will take you to them . With your face to a wall . Yes . " Don Sabas half turned and waved his hand , with a ringing laugh ...
... Sabas Placido , traitor to your country . With your face to a wall . So , you will die . I am the admiral , and I will take you to them . With your face to a wall . Yes . " Don Sabas half turned and waved his hand , with a ringing laugh ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul cool Coralio crew Dalesburg Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
Brani popolari
Pagina 14 - His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.