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 8
... and Sicily now bag its small change across their counters . waiting - rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways. guns ounters . Gentleman adventurers throng the 8 Cabbages and Kings.
... and Sicily now bag its small change across their counters . waiting - rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways. guns ounters . Gentleman adventurers throng the 8 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 9
waiting - rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways and concessions . The little opéra - bouffe nations play at government and intrigue until some day a big , silent gunboat glides into the offing and warns them not to break their ...
waiting - rooms of its rulers with proposals for railways and concessions . The little opéra - bouffe nations play at government and intrigue until some day a big , silent gunboat glides into the offing and warns them not to break their ...
Pagina 25
His plans were completed for the interception of the fugitives from the capital ; and now it was but a waiting game that he had to play . The consul was interested in his report . He was only twenty - four ; and he had not been 25.
His plans were completed for the interception of the fugitives from the capital ; and now it was but a waiting game that he had to play . The consul was interested in his report . He was only twenty - four ; and he had not been 25.
Pagina 56
The two leaned against the deserted bar ; and Madama set out a bottle without waiting for the doctor's order . There was no dust on it . After they had drank twice Smith said : : “ You say there were no passengers on the Karlsefin 56 ...
The two leaned against the deserted bar ; and Madama set out a bottle without waiting for the doctor's order . There was no dust on it . After they had drank twice Smith said : : “ You say there were no passengers on the Karlsefin 56 ...
Pagina 59
On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoanut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated ...
On the sandy beach , with his back against a cocoanut - tree and the stubs of many cigars lying around him , Smith sat waiting , never relaxing his sharp gaze in the direction of the steamer . The incongruous yachtsman had concentrated ...
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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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