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 26
Perhaps , he thought , the State Department , upon reading his introduction , would notice — and then he leaned back in his chair and laughed . He was getting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an ...
Perhaps , he thought , the State Department , upon reading his introduction , would notice — and then he leaned back in his chair and laughed . He was getting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an ...
Pagina 29
One room was the official apartment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a hammock , and three uncomfortable cane - seated chairs . Engravings of the first and latest president of the country represented hung against the wall .
One room was the official apartment , furnished chastely with a flat - top desk , a hammock , and three uncomfortable cane - seated chairs . Engravings of the first and latest president of the country represented hung against the wall .
Pagina 30
Opening this the consul rested it upon the table , supporting its weight with the aid of the back of a chair . Then he partook of his meal deliberately , turning the leaves from time to time and glancing half idly at the contents .
Opening this the consul rested it upon the table , supporting its weight with the aid of the back of a chair . Then he partook of his meal deliberately , turning the leaves from time to time and glancing half idly at the contents .
Pagina 31
Geddie , having finished his breakfast , took his papers to the edge of the gallery , and sat there in his favourite steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing .
Geddie , having finished his breakfast , took his papers to the edge of the gallery , and sat there in his favourite steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing .
Pagina 37
There was a little smile both of perplexity and amusement in Geddie's eyes as he set the bottle down , and laid three cigars side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably .
There was a little smile both of perplexity and amusement in Geddie's eyes as he set the bottle down , and laid three cigars side by side on his desk . He fetched his steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably .
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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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