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 21
And here is Billy Keogh , because he is virtuous , condemned to the unprofitable swindle of slandering the faces of 9 missing links on tin for an honest living ! “ Fox - in - the - Morning " 21.
And here is Billy Keogh , because he is virtuous , condemned to the unprofitable swindle of slandering the faces of 9 missing links on tin for an honest living ! “ Fox - in - the - Morning " 21.
Pagina 48
Geddie was lounging in his hammock , somewhat pale of face and languid in pose . On that night when the Valhalla's boat had brought him ashore apparently drenched to death by the sea , Doctor Gregg and his other friends had toiled for ...
Geddie was lounging in his hammock , somewhat pale of face and languid in pose . On that night when the Valhalla's boat had brought him ashore apparently drenched to death by the sea , Doctor Gregg and his other friends had toiled for ...
Pagina 53
Dr. Gregg , the quarantine physician , was a man of fifty or sixty , with a florid face and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his position by virtue of an appointment by the Board of Health of a seaport city ...
Dr. Gregg , the quarantine physician , was a man of fifty or sixty , with a florid face and the longest beard between Topeka and Terra del Fuego . He held his position by virtue of an appointment by the Board of Health of a seaport city ...
Pagina 55
He was yellowish - brown , like an over - ripe lemon ; he wore a cotton shirt and ragged linen trousers girded by a leather belt . His face was like an animal's , live and wary , but without promise of ...
He was yellowish - brown , like an over - ripe lemon ; he wore a cotton shirt and ragged linen trousers girded by a leather belt . His face was like an animal's , live and wary , but without promise of ...
Pagina 56
He then held up two fingers , shaking them emphatically before the native's face . Next he pulled out his watch and ran his finger round its dial twice . Again the two fingers confronted the patient's nose .
He then held up two fingers , shaking them emphatically before the native's face . Next he pulled out his watch and ran his finger round its dial twice . Again the two fingers confronted the patient's nose .
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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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