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 6
Only by following out the underlying threads will it be made clear why the old
Indian , Galvez , is secretly paid to keep green the grave of President Miraflores
by one who never saw that unfortunate statesman in life or in death , and why that
...
Only by following out the underlying threads will it be made clear why the old
Indian , Galvez , is secretly paid to keep green the grave of President Miraflores
by one who never saw that unfortunate statesman in life or in death , and why that
...
Pagina 20
Across the treacherous mangrove swamps few things without wings could safely
pass . Therefore the fugitives could hope to reach the coast only by one of the
routes named . “ Keep the matter quiet , Billy , ” advised Goodwin . “ We don ' t
want ...
Across the treacherous mangrove swamps few things without wings could safely
pass . Therefore the fugitives could hope to reach the coast only by one of the
routes named . “ Keep the matter quiet , Billy , ” advised Goodwin . “ We don ' t
want ...
Pagina 45
Now that President Miraflores might be expected to reach the borders of his
abjured country at any time , the orders were to keep a strict and unrelenting
watch . Every vessel that approached the shores might now be considered a
possible ...
Now that President Miraflores might be expected to reach the borders of his
abjured country at any time , the orders were to keep a strict and unrelenting
watch . Every vessel that approached the shores might now be considered a
possible ...
Pagina 50
Keep your seat , old man , ” said the visitor , with an airy wave of his large hand . “
My name ' s Smith ; and I ' ve come in a yacht . You are the consul — is that right
? A big , cool guy on the beach directed me here . Thought I ' d pay my respects ...
Keep your seat , old man , ” said the visitor , with an airy wave of his large hand . “
My name ' s Smith ; and I ' ve come in a yacht . You are the consul — is that right
? A big , cool guy on the beach directed me here . Thought I ' d pay my respects ...
Pagina 62
At Coralio the Liberal patriot Varras could be depended upon to keep close
watch . Goodwin held himself responsible for the district about Coralio . The news
of the president ' s flight had been disclosed to no one in the coast towns save ...
At Coralio the Liberal patriot Varras could be depended upon to keep close
watch . Goodwin held himself responsible for the district about Coralio . The news
of the president ' s flight had been disclosed to no one in the coast towns save ...
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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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