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 11
The waves swished along the smooth beach ; the parrots screamed in the orange and ceiba - trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of ...
The waves swished along the smooth beach ; the parrots screamed in the orange and ceiba - trees ; the palms waved their limber fronds foolishly like an awkward chorus at the prima donna's cue to enter . Suddenly the town was full of ...
Pagina 12
main street running parallel to the beach became populated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gathered at street corners and ...
main street running parallel to the beach became populated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown gathered at street corners and ...
Pagina 23
On the principal street running along the beach — the Broadway of Coralio — were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place , On his way Goodwin passed the house of ...
On the principal street running along the beach — the Broadway of Coralio — were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum - shops and the market place , On his way Goodwin passed the house of ...
Pagina 27
The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by the time he arrived on the sandy shore the boat of the customs officials was rowing back from the ...
The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by the time he arrived on the sandy shore the boat of the customs officials was rowing back from the ...
Pagina 29
The loungers on the beach — about a third of the population of the town laughed and applauded delightedly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers delivered and received in that same manner , and they were never ...
The loungers on the beach — about a third of the population of the town laughed and applauded delightedly . Every week they expected to see that roll of papers delivered and received in that same manner , and they were never ...
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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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