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 19
“ By the mule - back schedule , ” said Keogh , “ it's five days down from San Mateo . We've got plenty of time to set our outposts . There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from here and Solitas and Alazan .
“ By the mule - back schedule , ” said Keogh , “ it's five days down from San Mateo . We've got plenty of time to set our outposts . There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from here and Solitas and Alazan .
Pagina 27
Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each incoming 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 ...
Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each incoming 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 ...
Pagina 28
When they grounded in the shallow water there was still five yards of rolling surf between them and dry sand . Then half - clothed Caribs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native ...
When they grounded in the shallow water there was still five yards of rolling surf between them and dry sand . Then half - clothed Caribs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs the Valhalla's purser and the little native ...
Pagina 51
If you are going to remain in Coralio a while , Mr. Smith , I'll be glad to take you around to meet some people . There are four or five American chaps that are good to know , besides the native high - fliers .
If you are going to remain in Coralio a while , Mr. Smith , I'll be glad to take you around to meet some people . There are four or five American chaps that are good to know , besides the native high - fliers .
Pagina 53
The upper story contained four or five guest - rooms which were rarely put to their destined use . Sometimes a fruit - grower , riding in from his plantation to confer with his agent , would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper ...
The upper story contained four or five guest - rooms which were rarely put to their destined use . Sometimes a fruit - grower , riding in from his plantation to confer with his agent , would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper ...
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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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