Cabbages and KingsA. L. Burt Company, 1904 - 312 pagine O. Henry wove together several stories into this highly episodic narrative. Set in the fictional country of Coralio in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution lurks in every impoverished back alley, this novel offers cutting satire of contemporary politics and prejudices. Yet, in the end, lovers are reunited, poverty obliterated, and sentiment satisfied. |
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Pagina 23
... Fruit Company's agent , the store and residence of Bernard Brannigan , a ruined cathedral in which Columbus had once set foot , and , most imposing of all , the Casa Morena — the summer White House " of the President of An- churia . On ...
... Fruit Company's agent , the store and residence of Bernard Brannigan , a ruined cathedral in which Columbus had once set foot , and , most imposing of all , the Casa Morena — the summer White House " of the President of An- churia . On ...
Pagina 27
... fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By ...
... fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niņos of five years , everyone in Coralio could name you each in- coming steamer by the note of her siren . The consul sauntered by a roundabout , shaded way to the beach . By ...
Pagina 34
... fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chan- ca's clay oven under the calabash - tree ; of the treble laughter of the native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf ...
... fruit and bloom and the smoke from Chan- ca's clay oven under the calabash - tree ; of the treble laughter of the native women in their huts , the song of the robin , the salt taste of the breeze , the diminu- endo of the faint surf ...
Pagina 45
... fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the line operated by the Ve- suvius Fruit Company . She was something of a dilet- tante , doing odd jobs for a company that was ...
... fruit trade , anchored off Coralio with three hoarse toots of her siren . The Karlsefin was not one of the line operated by the Ve- suvius Fruit Company . She was something of a dilet- tante , doing odd jobs for a company that was ...
Pagina 46
... 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 con- veyed . Two or three of the freighter sloops were en- gaged to assist in the work , for the ...
... 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 con- veyed . Two or three of the freighter sloops were en- gaged to assist in the work , for the ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul cool Coralio crew Dalesburg Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic Rosine sail sand says seemed Seņor Goodwin seņorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
Brani popolari
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.