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 82
As with the self - banished Geddie , it was nothing less than the artful smiles of lovely woman that had driven Johnny Atwood to the desperate expedient of accepting office under a despised Federal Government so that he might go far ...
As with the self - banished Geddie , it was nothing less than the artful smiles of lovely woman that had driven Johnny Atwood to the desperate expedient of accepting office under a despised Federal Government so that he might go far ...
Pagina 83
Among the more agitated was 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 Atwood ...
Among the more agitated was 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 Atwood ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pagina 85
So Johnny shook hands with Rosine as coolly as if he were only goir g to run up to Montgomery for a couple of days . They had the royal manner when they chose , those Atwoods . “ If you happen to strike anything in the way of a good ...
So Johnny shook hands with Rosine as coolly as if he were only goir g to run up to Montgomery for a couple of days . They had the royal manner when they chose , those Atwoods . “ If you happen to strike anything in the way of a good ...
Pagina 86
“ It's all right , ” said 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 ...
“ It's all right , ” said 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 ...
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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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