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 13
Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged die , the consul , on the ...
Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the abode of the consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged die , the consul , on the ...
Pagina 15
If the wheel successfully revolved , Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in ...
If the wheel successfully revolved , Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in ...
Pagina 41
Geddie stood still , watching it . The moonlight was so bright that he could see it bobbing up and down with the little waves . Slowly it receded from the shore , flashing and turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea .
Geddie stood still , watching it . The moonlight was so bright that he could see it bobbing up and down with the little waves . Slowly it receded from the shore , flashing and turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea .
Pagina 52
It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepulchre . 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 ...
It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepulchre . 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 ...
Pagina 65
He stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and but for political reasons he would have demanded then and there the money . It was the design of his party to secure the imperilled fund , to restore it to the treasury of the ...
He stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and but for political reasons he would have demanded then and there the money . It was the design of his party to secure the imperilled fund , to restore it to the treasury of the ...
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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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