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 5
... natives have nothing but good to say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has com- pelled their respect . His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district ...
... natives have nothing but good to say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has com- pelled their respect . His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast affords . The wife of the governor of the district ...
Pagina 11
... native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shriek- ing : " Busca el Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un telégrafo por el ! ” The word passed quickly . Telegrams do not often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was ...
... native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shriek- ing : " Busca el Señor Goodwin . Ha venido un telégrafo por el ! ” The word passed quickly . Telegrams do not often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was ...
Pagina 13
... natives was drowned and silenced . Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with ...
... natives was drowned and silenced . Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with ...
Pagina 22
... and here were set the palm - thatched huts of the Caribs and the poorer natives , and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and the West India the bell islands . A few structures raised their heads 22 Cabbages and Kings.
... and here were set the palm - thatched huts of the Caribs and the poorer natives , and the shabby cabins of negroes from Jamaica and the West India the bell islands . A few structures raised their heads 22 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 28
... native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a treasure as a first- baseman . He now closed his umbrella , stuck it up- right in the sand , and ...
... native offi- cials in their cotton undershirts , blue trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a treasure as a first- baseman . He now closed his umbrella , stuck it up- right in the sand , and ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
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
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.