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 35
a Lazily interested , he watched this blur increase until it became the Idalia steaming at full speed , coming down the coast . Without changing his position he kept his eyes upon the beautiful white yacht as she drew swiftly near ...
a Lazily interested , he watched this blur increase until it became the Idalia steaming at full speed , coming down the coast . Without changing his position he kept his eyes upon the beautiful white yacht as she drew swiftly near ...
Pagina 44
After this was done there remained only to cover the district about Coralio and await the 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 ...
After this was done there remained only to cover the district about Coralio and await the 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 ...
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 ...
Pagina 109
Here was fifty odd Latin men 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 ...
Here was fifty odd Latin men 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 ...
Pagina 111
And if you ever happen to see Billy Renfrow again before I do , tell him I'm 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 ...
And if you ever happen to see Billy Renfrow again before I do , tell him I'm 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 ...
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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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