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 23
A handsome , vivacious girl neatly dressed in flowing white leaned over the railing and smiled down upon Goodwin . She was no darker than many an Andalusian of high descent ; and she sparkled and glowed like a tropical moonlight .
A handsome , vivacious girl neatly dressed in flowing white leaned over the railing and smiled down upon Goodwin . She was no darker than many an Andalusian of high descent ; and she sparkled and glowed like a tropical moonlight .
Pagina 34
The gentle slope from the consulate to the sea was covered with the dark - green foliage of lemon - trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon pierced the land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba ...
The gentle slope from the consulate to the sea was covered with the dark - green foliage of lemon - trees and orange - trees just bursting into bloom . A lagoon pierced the land like a dark , jagged crystal , and above it a pale ceiba ...
Pagina 36
The cork had been driven in tightly to the level of the mouth , and the end covered with dark - red sealing - wax . The bottle contained only what seemed to be a sheet of paper , much curled from the manipulation it had undergone while ...
The cork had been driven in tightly to the level of the mouth , and the end covered with dark - red sealing - wax . The bottle contained only what seemed to be a sheet of paper , much curled from the manipulation it had undergone while ...
Pagina 41
Reaching in the half - darkness , his hand struck against the bottle . He started as if he had touched the cold rotundity of a serpent . He had forgotten that the bottle was there , He lighted the lamp and fed the monkey .
Reaching in the half - darkness , his hand struck against the bottle . He started as if he had touched the cold rotundity of a serpent . He had forgotten that the bottle was there , He lighted the lamp and fed the monkey .
Pagina 64
Somewhere over in that tropical darkness — perhaps already threading the profundities of the alluvial lowlands — the high adventurer and his mate were moving toward land's end . The end . The game of Fox - in - the - Morning should be ...
Somewhere over in that tropical darkness — perhaps already threading the profundities of the alluvial lowlands — the high adventurer and his mate were moving toward land's end . The end . The game of Fox - in - the - Morning should be ...
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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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