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 18
Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the government at once ;
but with the treasury empty we ' d stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot
would stick on an untamed bronco . We must play the fox on every foot of the
coast ...
Our crowd is prepared and able to step into the shoes of the government at once ;
but with the treasury empty we ' d stay in power about as long as a tenderfoot
would stick on an untamed bronco . We must play the fox on every foot of the
coast ...
Pagina 39
Some timorous seņoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the jetty braids
of their hair glanced at him with shy , flattering eyes . The air was languorous with
the scent of jasmin and orange - blossoms . The consul stayed his steps at the ...
Some timorous seņoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the jetty braids
of their hair glanced at him with shy , flattering eyes . The air was languorous with
the scent of jasmin and orange - blossoms . The consul stayed his steps at the ...
Pagina 52
A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low
, rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered
adobe , stained a hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun .
A grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low
, rock wall over which a tall man might easily step . The house was of plastered
adobe , stained a hundred shades of colour by the salt breeze and the sun .
Pagina 75
She took a step toward the door , but Goodwin stayed her by a light touch upon
her arm . I have said before that women turned to look at him in the streets . He
was the viking sort of man , big , goodlooking , and with an air of kindly truculence
.
She took a step toward the door , but Goodwin stayed her by a light touch upon
her arm . I have said before that women turned to look at him in the streets . He
was the viking sort of man , big , goodlooking , and with an air of kindly truculence
.
Pagina 87
The stationery ' items are sometimes carelessly audited by the State Department .
” “ We ' re wasting our time , " said Keogh . “ This man was born to hold office . He
penetrates to the root of the art at one step of his eagle eye . The true genius of ...
The stationery ' items are sometimes carelessly audited by the State Department .
” “ We ' re wasting our time , " said Keogh . “ This man was born to hold office . He
penetrates to the root of the art at one step of his eagle eye . The true genius of ...
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admiral American Anchuria asked bananas beach began Billy Blythe boat bottle brought capital captain carried cigar Clancy close coast coming Company consul Coralio dark Dicky dollars door entered eyes face feet five followed friends fruit Geddie give Goodwin hand head heard Henry hundred Johnny keep Keogh kind land light looked means Mellinger minutes morning move native never night once paint picture play president republic running sand says seemed Seņor shoes shore side sloop smile soon Spanish speak steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thought thousand told took town tree tropics turned Twas waiting walked wall White York young
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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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