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 46
About four o ' clock in the afternoon another of those marine monsters , not very
familiar in those waters , hove in sight , following the fateful Idalia — a graceful
steam yacht , painted a light buff , clean - cut as a steel engraving . The beautiful
...
About four o ' clock in the afternoon another of those marine monsters , not very
familiar in those waters , hove in sight , following the fateful Idalia — a graceful
steam yacht , painted a light buff , clean - cut as a steel engraving . The beautiful
...
Pagina 77
But why , he angrily asked himself , should he be so well pleased to think this
wandering and unscrupulous singer not so black as report had painted her ? A
noise in the other room startled them both . The door swung open , and a tall ,
elderly ...
But why , he angrily asked himself , should he be so well pleased to think this
wandering and unscrupulous singer not so black as report had painted her ? A
noise in the other room startled them both . The door swung open , and a tall ,
elderly ...
Pagina 100
... orchid collections , and then had enough left to purchase the colored vote of
his country . Henry and me wondered what his graft was . One evening he told us
. « « Boys , ' said he , I ' ve deceived you . You think I ' m a painted butterfly ; but in
...
... orchid collections , and then had enough left to purchase the colored vote of
his country . Henry and me wondered what his graft was . One evening he told us
. « « Boys , ' said he , I ' ve deceived you . You think I ' m a painted butterfly ; but in
...
Pagina 103
It ' s one of my little chores as private secretary to smell out these revolutions and
affix the kibosh before they break out and scratch the paint off the government
property . That ' s why I ' m down here now in this mildewed coast town .
It ' s one of my little chores as private secretary to smell out these revolutions and
affix the kibosh before they break out and scratch the paint off the government
property . That ' s why I ' m down here now in this mildewed coast town .
Pagina 139
... coat of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned himself
by fastening a handful of brilliant parrots plumes in his The Admiral 139.
... coat of white paint trimmed with blue . And then Felipe further adorned himself
by fastening a handful of brilliant parrots plumes in his The Admiral 139.
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admiral American Anchuria asked bananas beach began Billy Blythe boat bottle brought capital captain carried cigar Clancy close coast coming Company consul Coralio dark Dicky dollars door drink entered eyes face five followed friends fruit Geddie give Goodwin hand head heard Henry hundred Johnny keep Keogh kind knew land light looked means Mellinger minutes morning move native never night once paint picture play president republic says seemed Señor shoes shore side sloop smile soon Spanish speak steamer steps stood street talk tell there's thing thought thousand told took town tree tropics turned Twas waiting walked White York young
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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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