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 16
... mean nothing else than the mule - back system of transport that prevailed between Coralio and the capital . The hint that the " boodle was " six figures short " made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear . Also it was ...
... mean nothing else than the mule - back system of transport that prevailed between Coralio and the capital . The hint that the " boodle was " six figures short " made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear . Also it was ...
Pagina 17
... em . I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese when it was backed up by the muzzle of a breech - loader . This little literary essay I hold in my hands means a game of Fox - 66 17 Fox - in - the - Morning "
... em . I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese when it was backed up by the muzzle of a breech - loader . This little literary essay I hold in my hands means a game of Fox - 66 17 Fox - in - the - Morning "
Pagina 18
O. Henry. hold in my hands means a game of Fox - in - the - Morn- ing . Ever play that , Frank , when you was a kid ? ” " I think so , " said Goodwin , laughing . " You join hands all ' round , and- " " You do not , " interrupted Keogh ...
O. Henry. hold in my hands means a game of Fox - in - the - Morn- ing . Ever play that , Frank , when you was a kid ? ” " I think so , " said Goodwin , laughing . " You join hands all ' round , and- " " You do not , " interrupted Keogh ...
Pagina 22
... mean and monotonous adobe houses . At the outskirts of the village these streets dwindled to nothing ; and here were set the palm - thatched huts of the Caribs and the poorer natives , and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and ...
... mean and monotonous adobe houses . At the outskirts of the village these streets dwindled to nothing ; and here were set the palm - thatched huts of the Caribs and the poorer natives , and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and ...
Pagina 39
... mean save an overture toward a reconciliation ? And if that , why had she not used the same methods of the post instead of this uncertain and even flippant means of communication ? A note in an empty bot- tle , cast into the sea ! There ...
... mean save an overture toward a reconciliation ? And if that , why had she not used the same methods of the post instead of this uncertain and even flippant means of communication ? A note in an empty bot- tle , cast into the sea ! There ...
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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 Señor Goodwin señorita 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
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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.