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 5
What prejudices there were in Coralio concerning Seņora Goodwin seemed now to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of a tragedy and the climax ...
What prejudices there were in Coralio concerning Seņora Goodwin seemed now to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of a tragedy and the climax ...
Pagina 6
struction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous web of circumstances . The headpiece bearing the name of President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with ...
struction to trace the close threads that underlie the ingenuous web of circumstances . The headpiece bearing the name of President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with ...
Pagina 37
By holding the bottle near the light and turning it judiciously , he made out that it contained a double sheet of note - paper filled with close writing ; further , that the paper was of the same size and shade as that always used by ...
By holding the bottle near the light and turning it judiciously , he made out that it contained a double sheet of note - paper filled with close writing ; further , that the paper was of the same size and shade as that always used by ...
Pagina 62
At Coralio the Liberal patriot Varras could be depended upon to keep close watch . Goodwin held himself responsible for the district about Coralio . The news of the president's flight had been disclosed to no one in the coast towns save ...
At Coralio the Liberal patriot Varras could be depended upon to keep close watch . Goodwin held himself responsible for the district about Coralio . The news of the president's flight had been disclosed to no one in the coast towns save ...
Pagina 64
The game of Fox - in - the - Morning should be coming soon to its close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed ...
The game of Fox - in - the - Morning should be coming soon to its close . Goodwin , at his deliberate gait , passed the long , low cuartel where Coralio's contingent of Anchuria's military force slumbered , with its bare toes pointed ...
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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.