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 few structures raised their heads above the red - tiled roofs of the one - story houses — the bell tower of the Calaboza , the Hotel de los Estranjeros , the residence of the Vesuvius Fruit Company's agent , the store and residence of ...
A few structures raised their heads above the red - tiled roofs of the one - story houses — the bell tower of the Calaboza , the Hotel de los Estranjeros , the residence of the Vesuvius Fruit Company's agent , the store and residence of ...
Pagina 27
By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each incoming steamer by the note of her siren .
By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each incoming steamer by the note of her siren .
Pagina 34
His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chanca's clay oven under the calabash - tree ; of the treble laughter ...
His senses were cognizant of brilliant scarlet and ochres amid the vert of the coppice , of odours of fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chanca's clay oven under the calabash - tree ; of the treble laughter ...
Pagina 45
а On the fourth day after the receipt of Englehart's telegram the Karlsefin , a Norwegian steamer chartered by the New Orleans fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the ...
а On the fourth day after the receipt of Englehart's telegram the Karlsefin , a Norwegian steamer chartered by the New Orleans fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the ...
Pagina 46
The purser declared that the steamer would remain at anchor until morning , taking on her fruit during the night . The Karlsefin had come , he said , from New York , to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been ...
The purser declared that the steamer would remain at anchor until morning , taking on her fruit during the night . The Karlsefin had come , he said , from New York , to which port her latest load of oranges and cocoanuts had been ...
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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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