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 9
So , there is a little tale to tell of many things . Perhaps to the promiscuous ear of the Walrus it shall come with most avail ; for in it there are indeed shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of ...
So , there is a little tale to tell of many things . Perhaps to the promiscuous ear of the Walrus it shall come with most avail ; for in it there are indeed shoes and ships and sealing - wax and cabbage - palms and presidents instead of ...
Pagina 13
There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you . You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day with ...
There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you . You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You'll be getting a pink note some day with ...
Pagina 15
There was always a revolutionary party ; and to it he had always allied himself ; for the adherents of a new administration received the rewards of their labours . There was now a Liberal party seeking to overturn President Miraflores .
There was always a revolutionary party ; and to it he had always allied himself ; for the adherents of a new administration received the rewards of their labours . There was now a Liberal party seeking to overturn President Miraflores .
Pagina 19
There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as easy as a chess problem - fox to play , and mate in three moves .
There's only three places on the coast where they can hope to sail from here and Solitas and Alazan . They're the only points we'll have to guard . It's as easy as a chess problem - fox to play , and mate in three moves .
Pagina 21
Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ancestry . ” “ I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; “ but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculpture , and fiction reduced to chromos .
Sometimes I begin to fear that there's Irish blood in your ancestry . ” “ I never saw her either , " went on Keogh ; “ but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculpture , and fiction reduced to chromos .
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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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