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 26
... chair and laughed . He was get- ting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an insignificant town in an insignificant republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the ...
... chair and laughed . He was get- ting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an insignificant town in an insignificant republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the ...
Pagina 29
... chairs . Engravings of the first and latest president of the country represented hung against the wall . The other room was the consul's living apartment . It was eleven o'clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast ...
... chairs . Engravings of the first and latest president of the country represented hung against the wall . The other room was the consul's living apartment . It was eleven o'clock when he returned from the beach , and therefore breakfast ...
Pagina 30
... chair . Then he partook of his meal deliberately , turning the leaves from time to time and glancing half idly at the contents . Presently he was struck by something familiar to him in a picture - a half - page , badly printed repro ...
... chair . Then he partook of his meal deliberately , turning the leaves from time to time and glancing half idly at the contents . Presently he was struck by something familiar to him in a picture - a half - page , badly printed repro ...
Pagina 31
... the gallery , and sat there in his favourite steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing . He lighted a cigar , and looked out upon the sea . He felt a glow of satisfaction at finding The Lotus and the Bottle 31.
... the gallery , and sat there in his favourite steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing . He lighted a cigar , and looked out upon the sea . He felt a glow of satisfaction at finding The Lotus and the Bottle 31.
Pagina 37
... chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had not found the bottle ; but the bottle was there ...
... chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had not found the bottle ; but the bottle was there ...
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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.