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 27
... coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by the time he arrived on the sandy shore the boat of the ...
... coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By reason of long practice he gauged his stroll so accurately that by the time he arrived on the sandy shore the boat of the ...
Pagina 44
... coming of the quarry . The nets were well spread . The roads were so few , the opportunities for embarkation so limited , and the two or three probable points of exit so well guarded that it would be strange indeed if there should slip ...
... coming of the quarry . The nets were well spread . The roads were so few , the opportunities for embarkation so limited , and the two or three probable points of exit so well guarded that it would be strange indeed if there should slip ...
Pagina 64
... 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 heavenward . There was a law that no civilian ...
... 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 heavenward . There was a law that no civilian ...
Pagina 109
... coming in a bunch to obstruct the legislation of Mellinger . You may say there were three of us , for me and Henry , simultaneous , declared New York City and the Cherokee Nation in sympathy with the weaker party . " Then it was that ...
... coming in a bunch to obstruct the legislation of Mellinger . You may say there were three of us , for me and Henry , simultaneous , declared New York City and the Cherokee Nation in sympathy with the weaker party . " Then it was that ...
Pagina 111
... coming back to New York as soon as I can make a stake honest . ' " Me and Henry laid low until the day the steamer came back . When we saw the captain's boat on the beach we went down and stood in the edge of the water . The captain ...
... coming back to New York as soon as I can make a stake honest . ' " Me and Henry laid low until the day the steamer came back . When we saw the captain's boat on the beach we went down and stood in the edge of the water . The captain ...
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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 Frank Goodwin friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land 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.