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 35
... sitting upright , he saw her float steadily past and on . Scarcely a mile of sea had separated her from the shore . He had seen the frequent flash of her polished brass work and the stripes of her deck - awn- ings so much , and no more ...
... sitting upright , he saw her float steadily past and on . Scarcely a mile of sea had separated her from the shore . He had seen the frequent flash of her polished brass work and the stripes of her deck - awn- ings so much , and no more ...
Pagina 50
... Sit down , " said Geddie . " I've been admiring your craft ever since it came in sight . Looks like a fast sailer . What's her tonnage ? " - " Search me ! " said Smith . " I don't know what she weighs in at . But she's got a tidy gait ...
... Sit down , " said Geddie . " I've been admiring your craft ever since it came in sight . Looks like a fast sailer . What's her tonnage ? " - " Search me ! " said Smith . " I don't know what she weighs in at . But she's got a tidy gait ...
Pagina 57
... sit in the cool a while . It isn't often we exiles get a chance to talk with somebody from the outside world . " The doctor brought out another chair to the side- walk for his new acquaintance . The two seated themselves . " You are a ...
... sit in the cool a while . It isn't often we exiles get a chance to talk with somebody from the outside world . " The doctor brought out another chair to the side- walk for his new acquaintance . The two seated themselves . " You are a ...
Pagina 61
... sits in vain , wagging his redun- dant beard , waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of these loose pages , Smith shall flutter among them again . In ...
... sits in vain , wagging his redun- dant beard , waiting to enrich his derelict audience with his moving tale of trepanning and jealousy . But prosperously to the lucidity of these loose pages , Smith shall flutter among them again . In ...
Pagina 94
... 999 " I hated to make a show of education ; but I was disinclined to be overdone in syntax by a mere Indian , a member of a race to which we owe nothing except the land on which the United States is sit- 94 Cabbages and Kings.
... 999 " I hated to make a show of education ; but I was disinclined to be overdone in syntax by a mere Indian , a member of a race to which we owe nothing except the land on which the United States is sit- 94 Cabbages and Kings.
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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 Frank Goodwin friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land 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.