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 28
... sloop or two would be making strange trips in and out along the shore ; and in the morning the stock of Three- Star Hennessey , wines and dry goods in Coralio would be found vastly increased . It has also been said that the customs ...
... sloop or two would be making strange trips in and out along the shore ; and in the morning the stock of Three- Star Hennessey , wines and dry goods in Coralio would be found vastly increased . It has also been said that the customs ...
Pagina 63
... sloop found by chance at the water's edge . A dozen patrols walked the streets of Coralio unsuspected , ready to intercept the truant official should he show himself there . Goodwin was very well convinced that no precau- tions had been ...
... sloop found by chance at the water's edge . A dozen patrols walked the streets of Coralio unsuspected , ready to intercept the truant official should he show himself there . Goodwin was very well convinced that no precau- tions had been ...
Pagina 88
... sloop , white - winged like some snowy sea fowl . Its course lay within twenty points of the wind's eye ; so it veered in and out again in long , slow strokes like the movements of a graceful skater . 88 Cabbages and Kings.
... sloop , white - winged like some snowy sea fowl . Its course lay within twenty points of the wind's eye ; so it veered in and out again in long , slow strokes like the movements of a graceful skater . 88 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 89
... sloop was now on its outward tack ; but from it came a clear , answering hail : 66 Good - bye , Billy · · go - ing home - bye ! " The Andador was the sloop's destination . No doubt some passenger with a sailing permit from some up - the ...
... sloop was now on its outward tack ; but from it came a clear , answering hail : 66 Good - bye , Billy · · go - ing home - bye ! " The Andador was the sloop's destination . No doubt some passenger with a sailing permit from some up - the ...
Pagina 131
... sloop Estrella del Noche and her cargo of drygoods , patent medicines , granu- lated sugar and three - star brandy . Also six Martini rifles and a barrel of American whisky . Caught in the act of smuggling , the sloop with its cargo was ...
... sloop Estrella del Noche and her cargo of drygoods , patent medicines , granu- lated sugar and three - star brandy . Also six Martini rifles and a barrel of American whisky . Caught in the act of smuggling , the sloop with its cargo was ...
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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 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.