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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The time has come , ” the Walrus said , “ To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing - wat , And cabbages and kings . " THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER نور : CONTENTS PAGE 3 11 . 25 . 44 . 62.
The time has come , ” the Walrus said , “ To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing - wat , And cabbages and kings . " THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER نور : CONTENTS PAGE 3 11 . 25 . 44 . 62.
Pagina 9
... itself , with talk enough to weary the most garrulous of Walruses . “ FOX - IN - THE - MORNING " a The Proem 9.
... itself , with talk enough to weary the most garrulous of Walruses . “ FOX - IN - THE - MORNING " a The Proem 9.
Pagina 25
You won't talk ; and you won't set out anything to drink . What kind of a way is that of representing your government ? " Goodwin strolled out and across to the hotel to see if he could bully the quarantine doctor into a game on ...
You won't talk ; and you won't set out anything to drink . What kind of a way is that of representing your government ? " Goodwin strolled out and across to the hotel to see if he could bully the quarantine doctor into a game on ...
Pagina 57
It isn't often we exiles get a chance to talk with somebody from the outside world . ” The doctor brought out another chair to the sidewalk for his new acquaintance . The two seated themselves . “ You are a man of the world , ” said Dr.
It isn't often we exiles get a chance to talk with somebody from the outside world . ” The doctor brought out another chair to the sidewalk for his new acquaintance . The two seated themselves . “ You are a man of the world , ” said Dr.
Pagina 74
You talk of stolen money ! I do not understand you . Some mistake has been made . I will convince you . Remain where you are and I will bring you the valise that you seem to covet so , and show it to you . " She moved toward the closed ...
You talk of stolen money ! I do not understand you . Some mistake has been made . I will convince you . Remain where you are and I will bring you the valise that you seem to covet so , and show it to you . " She moved toward the closed ...
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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.