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 82
... Johnny At- wood to the desperate expedient of accepting office under a despised Federal Government so that he might go far , far away and never see again the false , fair face that had wrecked his young life . The con- sulship at ...
... Johnny At- wood to the desperate expedient of accepting office under a despised Federal Government so that he might go far , far away and never see again the false , fair face that had wrecked his young life . The con- sulship at ...
Pagina 83
... Johnny , the son of Judge Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the edge of Dalesburg . It would seem that the desirable Rosine should have been pleased to return the affection of an At- wood , a name honoured all over the ...
... Johnny , the son of Judge Atwood , who lived in the big colonial mansion on the edge of Dalesburg . It would seem that the desirable Rosine should have been pleased to return the affection of an At- wood , a name honoured all over the ...
Pagina 84
... Johnny persuaded him to set the wheels moving for some foreign appointment . He would go away - away . Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true , how faithful his love had been , and would drop a tear maybe in the cream she ...
... Johnny persuaded him to set the wheels moving for some foreign appointment . He would go away - away . Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true , how faithful his love had been , and would drop a tear maybe in the cream she ...
Pagina 85
... Johnny shook hands with Rosine as coolly as if he were only goir g to run up to Montgomery for a couple of days ... Johnny , " said Pink Dawson , " just let me know , will you ? I reckon I could lay my hands on a few extra thousands ...
... Johnny shook hands with Rosine as coolly as if he were only goir g to run up to Montgomery for a couple of days ... Johnny , " said Pink Dawson , " just let me know , will you ? I reckon I could lay my hands on a few extra thousands ...
Pagina 86
... Johnny from the hammock that he had set up as the official reclining place . " If anything turns up that has to be done I'll let you fellows do it . You can't expect a Democrat to work during his first term of holding office . " " You ...
... Johnny from the hammock that he had set up as the official reclining place . " If anything turns up that has to be done I'll let you fellows do it . You can't expect a Democrat to work during his first term of holding office . " " You ...
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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 Frank Goodwin friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land 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.