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 90
... Mellinger , " explained Keogh , dropping back into his chair . " He's going back to New York . He was private secretary of the late hot - foot president of this grocery and fruit stand that they call a country . His job's over now ; and ...
... Mellinger , " explained Keogh , dropping back into his chair . " He's going back to New York . He was private secretary of the late hot - foot president of this grocery and fruit stand that they call a country . His job's over now ; and ...
Pagina 99
... Mellinger , ' says the man - Homer P. Mel- linger . Boys , you're confiscated . You're babes in the wood without a chaperon or referee , and it's my duty to start you going . I'll knock out the props and launch you proper in the ...
... Mellinger , ' says the man - Homer P. Mel- linger . Boys , you're confiscated . You're babes in the wood without a chaperon or referee , and it's my duty to start you going . I'll knock out the props and launch you proper in the ...
Pagina 100
... Mellinger called upon the people to observe the artful music and his two lifelong friends , the Señors Americanos . The opera chorus was agitated with esteem , and followed us from house to house . There was a different kind of drink to ...
... Mellinger called upon the people to observe the artful music and his two lifelong friends , the Señors Americanos . The opera chorus was agitated with esteem , and followed us from house to house . There was a different kind of drink to ...
Pagina 101
... Mellinger he cooks and seasons it . In the front office I fill the president's inkstand and search visiting statesmen for dirks and dynamite ; but in the back room I dictate the policy of the government . You'd never guess in the world ...
... Mellinger he cooks and seasons it . In the front office I fill the president's inkstand and search visiting statesmen for dirks and dynamite ; but in the back room I dictate the policy of the government . You'd never guess in the world ...
Pagina 102
... Mellinger made oration to me and Henry Horsecollar . And , later , he divested himself of this remark : " Boys , I'm to hold a soirée this evening with a gang of leading citizens , and I want your assistance . You bring the musical corn ...
... Mellinger made oration to me and Henry Horsecollar . And , later , he divested himself of this remark : " Boys , I'm to hold a soirée this evening with a gang of leading citizens , and I want your assistance . You bring the musical corn ...
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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.