Cabbages and KingsA series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic." |
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Pagina 24
No , there ' s no news to tell , I believe , ” said Gooawin , with a mischievous look
in his eye , “ except that old Geddie is getting grumpier and crosser every day . If
something doesn ' t happen to relieve his mind I ' ll have to quit smoking on his ...
No , there ' s no news to tell , I believe , ” said Gooawin , with a mischievous look
in his eye , “ except that old Geddie is getting grumpier and crosser every day . If
something doesn ' t happen to relieve his mind I ' ll have to quit smoking on his ...
Pagina 25
II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul for the United
States in Coralio , was working leisurely on his yearly report . Goodwin , who had
strolled in as he did daily for a smoke on the much coveted porch , had found him
so ...
II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul for the United
States in Coralio , was working leisurely on his yearly report . Goodwin , who had
strolled in as he did daily for a smoke on the much coveted porch , had found him
so ...
Pagina 27
Geddie laid down his pen and gathered his Panama hat and umbrella . By the
sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the
Vesuvius Company . Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio could
name ...
Geddie laid down his pen and gathered his Panama hat and umbrella . By the
sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the
Vesuvius Company . Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio could
name ...
Pagina 28
Then half - clothed Caribs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs
the Valhalla ' s purser and the little native officials in their cotton undershirts , blue
trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a
...
Then half - clothed Caribs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs
the Valhalla ' s purser and the little native officials in their cotton undershirts , blue
trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a
...
Pagina 29
Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding “ thwack . ” The loungers
on the beach — about a third of the population of the town — laughed and
applauded delightedly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers
delivered ...
Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding “ thwack . ” The loungers
on the beach — about a third of the population of the town — laughed and
applauded delightedly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers
delivered ...
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings American fiction IV, 1901-1905 The complete edition of O. Henry |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | A. L. Burt Company, 1904 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 12 mar 2008 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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