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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Pagina 14
... capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people . " That he was a man of resource and imagination was proven by the telegram he had sent . It had been his ...
... capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist and " good people . " That he was a man of resource and imagination was proven by the telegram he had sent . It had been his ...
Pagina 16
... capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose troupe of performers had been entertained by the president at ...
... capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel Guilbert , the opera singer , whose troupe of performers had been entertained by the president at ...
Pagina 19
... 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 ...
... 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
... 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. Zavalla , and start a man up the trail to cut 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. Zavalla , and start a man up the trail to cut the ...
Pagina 25
... - pleted 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 AND THE BOTTLE.
... - pleted 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 AND THE BOTTLE.
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Parole e frasi comuni
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
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.