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 67
... had entered , opened it and stepped inside . Madama had returned downstairs
from her journey above to see Caught 67.
... had entered , opened it and stepped inside . Madama had returned downstairs
from her journey above to see Caught 67.
Pagina 68
She was about to take a thimbleful of rum as a solace for having her rest
disturbed . She looked up without surprise or alarm as her third caller entered . “
Ah ! it is the Seņor Goodwin . Not often does he honour my poor house by his
presence .
She was about to take a thimbleful of rum as a solace for having her rest
disturbed . She looked up without surprise or alarm as her third caller entered . “
Ah ! it is the Seņor Goodwin . Not often does he honour my poor house by his
presence .
Pagina 69
He turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind him . If that
was Isabel Guilbert seated by the table in that poorly furnished room , report had
failed to do her charms justice . She rested her head upon one hand . Extreme ...
He turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind him . If that
was Isabel Guilbert seated by the table in that poorly furnished room , report had
failed to do her charms justice . She rested her head upon one hand . Extreme ...
Pagina 70
She looked up when the American entered , with an expression of surprised
inquiry , but without alarm . Goodwin took off his hat and seated himself , with his
characteristic deliberate ease , upon a corner of the table . He held a lighted cigar
...
She looked up when the American entered , with an expression of surprised
inquiry , but without alarm . Goodwin took off his hat and seated himself , with his
characteristic deliberate ease , upon a corner of the table . He held a lighted cigar
...
Pagina 72
I entered this room at a venture . Had I entered the other I would have had it
before now . Do you want it in words ? The gentleman in Number 10 has
betrayed a great trust . He has robbed his people of a large sum , and it is I who
will prevent ...
I entered this room at a venture . Had I entered the other I would have had it
before now . Do you want it in words ? The gentleman in Number 10 has
betrayed a great trust . He has robbed his people of a large sum , and it is I who
will prevent ...
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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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