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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THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT . . . VII . MONEY MAZE · VIII . THE
ADMIRAL . . . . . . . . 130 IX . The Flag PARAMOUNT . . . . . 144 X . THE
SHAMROCK AND THE Palm . . . 161 XI . THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE . . .
189 XII . SHOES .
THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT . . . VII . MONEY MAZE · VIII . THE
ADMIRAL . . . . . . . . 130 IX . The Flag PARAMOUNT . . . . . 144 X . THE
SHAMROCK AND THE Palm . . . 161 XI . THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE . . .
189 XII . SHOES .
Pagina 129
ishing his eyeglasses with a disreputable handkerchief . “ I thought I could do it ,
but I couldn ' t , ” he muttered to himself after a time . “ A gentleman can ' t
blackmail the man that he drinks with . ” VIII THE ADMIRAL SPILLED milk draws
few ...
ishing his eyeglasses with a disreputable handkerchief . “ I thought I could do it ,
but I couldn ' t , ” he muttered to himself after a time . “ A gentleman can ' t
blackmail the man that he drinks with . ” VIII THE ADMIRAL SPILLED milk draws
few ...
Pagina 130
VIII THE ADMIRAL SPILLED milk draws few tears from an Anchurian
administration . Many are its lacteal sources ; and the clocks ' hands point forever
to milking time . Even the rich cream skimmed from the treasury by the bewitched
Miraflores ...
VIII THE ADMIRAL SPILLED milk draws few tears from an Anchurian
administration . Many are its lacteal sources ; and the clocks ' hands point forever
to milking time . Even the rich cream skimmed from the treasury by the bewitched
Miraflores ...
Pagina 131
O. Henry. A dozen quarts of champagne in conjunction with an informal sitting of
the president and his cabinet led to the establishment of the navy and the
appointment of Felipe Carrera as its admiral . Next to the champagne the credit of
the ...
O. Henry. A dozen quarts of champagne in conjunction with an informal sitting of
the president and his cabinet led to the establishment of the navy and the
appointment of Felipe Carrera as its admiral . Next to the champagne the credit of
the ...
Pagina 133
A formidable , official document was prepared , encrusted with chromatic seals
and jaunty with fluttering ribbons , bearing the florid signatures of state . This
commission conferred upon el Seņor Don Felipe Carrera the title of Flag Admiral
of ...
A formidable , official document was prepared , encrusted with chromatic seals
and jaunty with fluttering ribbons , bearing the florid signatures of state . This
commission conferred upon el Seņor Don Felipe Carrera the title of Flag Admiral
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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