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 26
... thought , the State Department , upon reading his introduction , would notice - and then he leaned back in his chair and laughed . He was get- ting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an insignificant ...
... thought , the State Department , upon reading his introduction , would notice - and then he leaned back in his chair and laughed . He was get- ting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an insignificant ...
Pagina 36
... other finger decoration . Geddie thought he could make out the familiar " IP " ; and a queer sensation of disquietude went over him . More personal and intimate was this reminder of her than had been the sight of the 36 Cabbages and Kings.
... other finger decoration . Geddie thought he could make out the familiar " IP " ; and a queer sensation of disquietude went over him . More personal and intimate was this reminder of her than had been the sight of the 36 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 38
... thought upon even trifling matters . He began to speculate upon many fanciful theories concerning the story of the bottle , rejecting each in turn . Ships in danger of wreck or disablement sometimes cast forth such precarious messengers ...
... thought upon even trifling matters . He began to speculate upon many fanciful theories concerning the story of the bottle , rejecting each in turn . Ships in danger of wreck or disablement sometimes cast forth such precarious messengers ...
Pagina 39
... thought stirred his pride and subdued what- ever emotions had been resurrected by the finding of the bottle . Geddie put on his coat and hat and walked out . He followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a ...
... thought stirred his pride and subdued what- ever emotions had been resurrected by the finding of the bottle . Geddie put on his coat and hat and walked out . He followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a ...
Pagina 50
... Thought I'd pay my respects to the flag . " - " Sit down , " said Geddie . " I've been admiring your craft ever since it came in sight . Looks like a fast sailer . What's her tonnage ? " - " Search me ! " said Smith . " I don't know ...
... Thought I'd pay my respects to the flag . " - " Sit down , " said Geddie . " I've been admiring your craft ever since it came in sight . Looks like a fast sailer . What's her tonnage ? " - " Search me ! " said Smith . " I don't know ...
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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 Frank Goodwin friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land 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
Brani popolari
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.