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 95
Twas a palatable enough place to look at . The houses were clean and white ; and to look at ' em stuck around among the scenery they reminded you of hard - boiled eggs served with lettuce . There was a block of skyscraper mountains in ...
Twas a palatable enough place to look at . The houses were clean and white ; and to look at ' em stuck around among the scenery they reminded you of hard - boiled eggs served with lettuce . There was a block of skyscraper mountains in ...
Pagina 98
Twas a good - sized room , dark and cheerful , but small . ' Twas on a various street , diversified by houses and conservatory plants . The peasantry of the city passed to and fro on the fine pasturage between the sidewalks .
Twas a good - sized room , dark and cheerful , but small . ' Twas on a various street , diversified by houses and conservatory plants . The peasantry of the city passed to and fro on the fine pasturage between the sidewalks .
Pagina 104
“ That night , according to arrangements , me and Henry took the phonograph to a room in a ' dobe house in a dirty side street , where the grass was knee high . ' Twas a long room , lit with 104 Cabbages and Kings.
“ That night , according to arrangements , me and Henry took the phonograph to a room in a ' dobe house in a dirty side street , where the grass was knee high . ' Twas a long room , lit with 104 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 105
Twas a long room , lit with smoky oil lamps . There was plenty of chairs , and a table at the back end . We set the phonograph on the table . Mellinger was there , walking up and down , disturbed in his predicaments .
Twas a long room , lit with smoky oil lamps . There was plenty of chairs , and a table at the back end . We set the phonograph on the table . Mellinger was there , walking up and down , disturbed in his predicaments .
Pagina 162
“ It reminds me of the time I struggled to liberate a nation from the poisonous breath of a tyrant's clutch . ' Twas hard work . ' Tis strainin ' to the back and makes corns on the hands . " “ I didn't know you had ever lent your sword ...
“ It reminds me of the time I struggled to liberate a nation from the poisonous breath of a tyrant's clutch . ' Twas hard work . ' Tis strainin ' to the back and makes corns on the hands . " “ I didn't know you had ever lent your sword ...
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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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