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 14
Goodwin sat on Keogh ' s doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from Bob
Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria ,
eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist
and ...
Goodwin sat on Keogh ' s doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from Bob
Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria ,
eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist
and ...
Pagina 16
It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital
city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in
his flight by that winning adventuress Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose ...
It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital
city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in
his flight by that winning adventuress Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose ...
Pagina 19
The down trail from the capital was at all times a weary road to travel . A jiggety -
joggety journey it was ; ice - cold and hot , wet and dry . The trail climbed
appalling mountains , wound like a rotten string about the brows of breathless
precipices ...
The down trail from the capital was at all times a weary road to travel . A jiggety -
joggety journey it was ; ice - cold and hot , wet and dry . The trail climbed
appalling mountains , wound like a rotten string about the brows of breathless
precipices ...
Pagina 20
I suppose Bob ' s information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet .
Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ; and ,
besides , everybody would have heard the news . I ' m going around now to see
Dr ...
I suppose Bob ' s information is something of a scoop in the capital as yet .
Otherwise he would not have tried to make his message a confidential one ; and ,
besides , everybody would have heard the news . I ' m going around now to see
Dr ...
Pagina 25
His plans were completed for the interception of the fugitives from the capital ;
and now it was but a waiting game that he had to play . The consul was
interested in his report . He was only twenty - four ; and he had not been 25 THE
LOTUS ...
His plans were completed for the interception of the fugitives from the capital ;
and now it was but a waiting game that he had to play . The consul was
interested in his report . He was only twenty - four ; and he had not been 25 THE
LOTUS ...
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admiral American Anchuria asked bananas beach began Billy Blythe boat bottle brought capital captain carried cigar Clancy close coast coming Company consul Coralio dark Dicky dollars door entered eyes face feet five followed friends fruit Geddie give Goodwin hand head heard Henry hundred Johnny keep Keogh kind land light looked means Mellinger minutes morning move native never night once paint picture play president republic running sand says seemed Seņor shoes shore side sloop smile soon Spanish speak steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thought thousand told took town tree tropics turned Twas waiting walked wall White York young
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.
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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