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 6
New Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish creole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct .
New Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish creole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a knowl- edge of men and motives that seemed to have come by instinct .
Pagina 8
For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical jungle topped by the overweening Cordilleras , is still begirt by ...
For there are yet tales of the Spanish Main . That segment of continent washed by the tempestuous Caribbean , and presenting to the sea a formidable border of tropical jungle topped by the overweening Cordilleras , is still begirt by ...
Pagina 12
The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores .
The man in the door was Billy Keogh , scout of fortune and progress and latter - day rover of the Spanish Main . Tintypes and protographs were the weapons with which Keogh and Clancy were at that time assailing the hopeless shores .
Pagina 14
This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish or English , for the eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist .
This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish or English , for the eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist .
Pagina 16
The telegram , which had remained unintelligible to the Anchurian linguists who had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and elemental English , conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin's understanding .
The telegram , which had remained unintelligible to the Anchurian linguists who had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and elemental English , conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin's understanding .
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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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