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 9
... play at government and intrigue until some day a big , si- lent gunboat glides into the offing and warns them not to break their toys . And with these changes comes also the small adventurer , with empty pockets to fill , light of heart ...
... play at government and intrigue until some day a big , si- lent gunboat glides into the offing and warns them not to break their toys . And with these changes comes also the small adventurer , with empty pockets to fill , light of heart ...
Pagina 18
... played . This president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Mateo , ready for the run , and shout : Fox - in - the- Morning ! ' Me and you , ' Goose and the Gander ! ' miles is it to London town ? if your legs are ...
... played . This president man and his companion in play , they stand up over in San Mateo , ready for the run , and shout : Fox - in - the- Morning ! ' Me and you , ' Goose and the Gander ! ' miles is it to London town ? if your legs are ...
Pagina 19
... play , and mate in three moves . Oh , goosey , goosey , gander , whither do you wander ? By the blessing of the literary telegraph the boodle of this benighted fatherland shall be preserved to the honest political party that is seeking ...
... play , and mate in three moves . Oh , goosey , goosey , gander , whither do you wander ? By the blessing of the literary telegraph the boodle of this benighted fatherland shall be preserved to the honest political party that is seeking ...
Pagina 25
... interception of the fugitives from the capital ; and now it was but a waiting game that he had to play . The consul was interested in his report . He was only twenty - four ; and he had not been 25 THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE.
... interception of the fugitives from the capital ; and now it was but a waiting game that he had to play . The consul was interested in his report . He was only twenty - four ; and he had not been 25 THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE.
Pagina 31
... played coyly and insinuatingly upon the strings of 66 on dit " and " Madame Rumour " and " a little bird " and " no one would be surprised , " and ended with congratulations . Geddie , having finished his breakfast , took his pa- pers ...
... played coyly and insinuatingly upon the strings of 66 on dit " and " Madame Rumour " and " a little bird " and " no one would be surprised , " and ended with congratulations . Geddie , having finished his breakfast , took his pa- pers ...
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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.