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 25
What kind of a way is that of representing your government ? ” Goodwin strolled
out and across to the hotel to see if he could bully the quarantine doctor into a
game on Coralio ' s solitary billiard table . His plans were completed for the ...
What kind of a way is that of representing your government ? ” Goodwin strolled
out and across to the hotel to see if he could bully the quarantine doctor into a
game on Coralio ' s solitary billiard table . His plans were completed for the ...
Pagina 27
... of many kinds were to be seen , but in the roadstead off Coralio scarcely The
Lotus and the Bottle 27.
... of many kinds were to be seen , but in the roadstead off Coralio scarcely The
Lotus and the Bottle 27.
Pagina 87
I didn ' t take this job with any intention of working , ” explained Johnny , lazily . “ I
wanted to go somewhere in the world where they didn ' t talk about farms . There
are none here , are there ? ” “ Not the kind you are acquainted with , ” answered ...
I didn ' t take this job with any intention of working , ” explained Johnny , lazily . “ I
wanted to go somewhere in the world where they didn ' t talk about farms . There
are none here , are there ? ” “ Not the kind you are acquainted with , ” answered ...
Pagina 90
Mellinger had a graft in this country that was the only thing of its kind in the world .
The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with
him afterward . ” “ Tell me about it , ” demanded Johnny , betraying interest .
Mellinger had a graft in this country that was the only thing of its kind in the world .
The tooting machine saved it for him once , and he always carried it around with
him afterward . ” “ Tell me about it , ” demanded Johnny , betraying interest .
Pagina 92
... a gentleman , the same as you and me . He was easy and romping in his ways
; a man about six foot , with a kind of rubber - tire movement . Yes , he was a little
man about five foot five , or five foot 92 THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT.
... a gentleman , the same as you and me . He was easy and romping in his ways
; a man about six foot , with a kind of rubber - tire movement . Yes , he was a little
man about five foot five , or five foot 92 THE PHONOGRAPH AND THE GRAFT.
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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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