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 26
Perhaps , he thought , the State Department , upon reading his introduction , would notice -- and then he leaned back in his chair and laughed . He was getting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an ...
Perhaps , he thought , the State Department , upon reading his introduction , would notice -- and then he leaned back in his chair and laughed . He was getting as bad as the others . For the moment he had forgotten that Coralio was an ...
Pagina 36
... but the impression had been hastily made , and the letters were past anything more certain than a shrewd conjecture . Ida Payne had always worn a signet - ring in preference to any other finger decoration . Geddie thought he could ...
... but the impression had been hastily made , and the letters were past anything more certain than a shrewd conjecture . Ida Payne had always worn a signet - ring in preference to any other finger decoration . Geddie thought he could ...
Pagina 38
Jreamy land , where time seemed so redundant , he had fallen into the habit of bestowing much thought upon even trilling matters . He began to speculate upon many fanciful theories concerning the story of the bottle , rejecting each in ...
Jreamy land , where time seemed so redundant , he had fallen into the habit of bestowing much thought upon even trilling matters . He began to speculate upon many fanciful theories concerning the story of the bottle , rejecting each in ...
Pagina 39
The thought stirred his pride and subdued whatever 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 ...
The thought stirred his pride and subdued whatever 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 ...
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 .
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 .
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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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