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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... BOTTLE III . SMITH • IV . CAUGHT · V. CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER Two . VI . THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT · VII . MONEY MAZE • VIII . THE ADMIRAL · IX . THE FLAG PARAMOUNT PAGE • 3 11 · • 25 . · 44 • 62 82 92 · · 113 • 130 • 144 · · . 161 ...
... BOTTLE III . SMITH • IV . CAUGHT · V. CUPID'S EXILE NUMBER Two . VI . THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT · VII . MONEY MAZE • VIII . THE ADMIRAL · IX . THE FLAG PARAMOUNT PAGE • 3 11 · • 25 . · 44 • 62 82 92 · · 113 • 130 • 144 · · . 161 ...
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... been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to Paula a certain shyness that was an adornment to the other half of her demonstrative nature . II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul 24 Cabbages and Kings.
... been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to Paula a certain shyness that was an adornment to the other half of her demonstrative nature . II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul 24 Cabbages and Kings.
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O. Henry. II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul for the United States in Coralio , was working leisurely on his yearly report . Goodwin , who had strolled in as he did daily for a smoke on the much coveted porch , had ...
O. Henry. II THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE WILLARD GEDDIE , consul for the United States in Coralio , was working leisurely on his yearly report . Goodwin , who had strolled in as he did daily for a smoke on the much coveted porch , had ...
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... from shore . When they take on fruit it is conveyed on lighters and freighter sloops . At Solitas , where there was a fine harbour , ships of many kinds were to be seen , but in the roadstead off Coralio scarcely The Lotus and the Bottle ...
... from shore . When they take on fruit it is conveyed on lighters and freighter sloops . At Solitas , where there was a fine harbour , ships of many kinds were to be seen , but in the roadstead off Coralio scarcely The Lotus and the Bottle ...
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... the side of the gallery facing the sea a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The break- fast consisted of shark's fin soup , stew of land crabs , - breadfruit , a boiled iguana steak , aguacates , a The Lotus and the Bottle 29.
... the side of the gallery facing the sea a spot famous as the coolest in Coralio . The break- fast consisted of shark's fin soup , stew of land crabs , - breadfruit , a boiled iguana steak , aguacates , a The Lotus and the Bottle 29.
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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
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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.