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 26
... report — some underling in the State Department and a compositor in the Public Printing Office . Per- haps the typesticker would note the increase of com- merce in Coralio , and speak of it , over 26 Cabbages and Kings.
... report — some underling in the State Department and a compositor in the Public Printing Office . Per- haps the typesticker would note the increase of com- merce in Coralio , and speak of it , over 26 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 27
O. Henry. merce in Coralio , and speak of it , over the cheese and beer , to a friend . 66 He had just written : Most unaccountable is the supineness of the large exporters in the United States in permitting the French and German houses ...
O. Henry. merce in Coralio , and speak of it , over the cheese and beer , to a friend . 66 He had just written : Most unaccountable is the supineness of the large exporters in the United States in permitting the French and German houses ...
Pagina 30
... speaking residents of the town . The paper that came first to his hand was one of those bulky mattresses of printed stuff upon which the readers of certain New York journals are supposed to take their Sabbath literary nap . Opening this ...
... speaking residents of the town . The paper that came first to his hand was one of those bulky mattresses of printed stuff upon which the readers of certain New York journals are supposed to take their Sabbath literary nap . Opening this ...
Pagina 34
... speak about it . By the time two hours were whiled away the consul tired of reading . The papers lay scattered about him on the gallery . Reclining there , he gazed dream- ily out upon an Eden . A clump of banana plants interposed their ...
... speak about it . By the time two hours were whiled away the consul tired of reading . The papers lay scattered about him on the gallery . Reclining there , he gazed dream- ily out upon an Eden . A clump of banana plants interposed their ...
Pagina 51
... speak of , but I won't be here long enough to do much knocking around . That cool gent on the beach spoke of a doctor ; can you tell me where I could find him ? The Rambler ain't quite as steady on her feet as Smith 51.
... speak of , but I won't be here long enough to do much knocking around . That cool gent on the beach spoke of a doctor ; can you tell me where I could find him ? The Rambler ain't quite as steady on her feet as Smith 51.
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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.