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 3
THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in Anchuria , that President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an ...
THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in Anchuria , that President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an ...
Pagina 16
It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that , he was accompanied in his flight by that winning adventuress Isabel Guilbert , the opera ...
It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that , he was accompanied in his flight by that winning adventuress Isabel Guilbert , the opera ...
Pagina 26
For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an insignificant town in an insignificant republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the quarantine doctor , who subscribed for the London Lancet ...
For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an insignificant town in an insignificant republic lying along the by - ways of a second - rate sea . He thought of Gregg , the quarantine doctor , who subscribed for the London Lancet ...
Pagina 57
If any customs duties on it went to the distinguished republic of Anchuria you may have my hat . If you won't have another , come out and let's sit in the cool a while . It isn't often we exiles get a chance to talk with somebody from ...
If any customs duties on it went to the distinguished republic of Anchuria you may have my hat . If you won't have another , come out and let's sit in the cool a while . It isn't often we exiles get a chance to talk with somebody from ...
Pagina 72
I do not say who that gentleman is ; but if I should be forced to see him and he should prove to be a certain high official of the republic , it will be my duty to arrest him . The house is guarded . I am offering you liberal I terms .
I do not say who that gentleman is ; but if I should be forced to see him and he should prove to be a certain high official of the republic , it will be my duty to arrest him . The house is guarded . I am offering you liberal I terms .
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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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