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 27
... steamer's siren . Geddie laid down his pen and gathered his Pan- ama hat and umbrella . By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niños of five years ...
... steamer's siren . Geddie laid down his pen and gathered his Pan- ama hat and umbrella . By the sound he knew it to be the Valhalla , one of the line of fruit vessels plying for the Vesuvius Company . Down to niños of five years ...
Pagina 29
O. Henry. - newspapers , tied with a string , that the steamer al- ways brought for him . Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding " thwack . " The loungers on the beach about a third of the popula- tion of the town laughed ...
O. Henry. - newspapers , tied with a string , that the steamer al- ways brought for him . Geddie leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding " thwack . " The loungers on the beach about a third of the popula- tion of the town laughed ...
Pagina 31
... of the gallery , and sat there in his favourite steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing . He lighted a cigar , and looked out upon the sea . He felt a glow of satisfaction at finding The Lotus and the Bottle 31.
... of the gallery , and sat there in his favourite steamer chair with his feet on the bamboo railing . He lighted a cigar , and looked out upon the sea . He felt a glow of satisfaction at finding The Lotus and the Bottle 31.
Pagina 37
... steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had not found the bottle ; but the bottle was ...
... steamer chair from the gallery , and stretched himself comfortably . He would smoke those three cigars while considering the problem . For it amounted to a problem . He almost wished that he had not found the bottle ; but the bottle was ...
Pagina 42
... steamer nearly a mile out from shore , swimmin ' like mad after a bottle that was floatin ' in the water , outward bound . We lowered the gig and started for him . He nearly had his hand on the bottle , when he gave out and went under ...
... steamer nearly a mile out from shore , swimmin ' like mad after a bottle that was floatin ' in the water , outward bound . We lowered the gig and started for him . He nearly had his hand on the bottle , when he gave out and went under ...
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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
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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.